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From: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
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Subject: Re: The UNIX/C Connection to Doctor Who
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 14:24:12 EST
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Hmm.  This suggests that the Doctor's TARDIS is an old "Type 11/40",
except that we all know that it is bigger on the inside than it
is on the outside (virtual memory).  Perhaps Rassilon and Omega
are really computer geniuses who figured out how to run large
address spaces on PDP-11's.

On another note: a while back the announcement was made that JNT
wanted to scrap the police-box appearance of the TARDIS for something
more contemporary (because young viewers in Britain had never seen
a real police call box).  At a Doctor Who convention last year I heard
JNT say that, due to overwhelming popular support, the current TARDIS
appearance is "safe".  After seeing *Frontios* I wondered if perhaps
this was the episode in which the shape change was to have occurred.
Does anyone know for sure?
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  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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