Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!umix!teemc!mcf!shan From: shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: DEC hardware manuals (really RISC) Message-ID: <409@mcf.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 88 21:14:37 GMT References: <9312@eddie.MIT.EDU> <467@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <9341@eddie.MIT.EDU> <11990@mimsy.UUCP> <7064@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani) Organization: michigan cancer foundation, detroit mi 48201 (313) 833-0710 Lines: 22 In article <7064@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes: > >But as Ken Olson said recently: > > "RISC is irrelevant" > >;-) I have learned some time ago - Ken Olsen is irrevelant. A lot of things he says always seem quite the contrary to what DEC ends up doing. As Barry Shein once eloquently put it "They ought to put him out to pasture". From what I understood at a recent gathering DEC had in our area, they already have about 150 systems internally running RISC and were talking about a January '89 release. What actually happens, well...your guess is as good as mine ;-). -- sharan kalwani ....!{uunet!umix, pur-ee!iuvax, ucbvax!mtxinu}!mcf!shan internet: shan%mcf.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu shan@mcf.uucp "The answer is UNIX: now what was the question?" -- title of a technical report published by some one in some university somewhere in the UK.