Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!ncar!oddjob!uxc!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!iclbra!apm From: apm@oasis.icl.stc.co.uk (Andrew Merritt x2109) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: AT&T Joining OSF Message-ID: <158@oasis.icl.stc.co.uk> Date: 15 Aug 88 07:34:15 GMT References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <63717@sun.uucp> Reply-To: apm@icl.co.uk (Andrew Merritt x2109) Organization: ICL, Bracknell, UK Lines: 20 %> %>[...] IBM became big by being reliable; they never %>did anything really new so what they had was most likely going to %>work. % %Aren't you ignoring things like RISC and Virtual Memory? Of course, this %was all about 20 years ago, but to say they "never did anything really %new" seems pretty off-base... % Ah, the Big Blue version of history again. IBM did not invent Virtual Memory. See the work done by Aspinall et al. on the MU5 at Manchester University. Andrew. -- signed: Andrew Merritt (763) 2109 local: apm global: apm@iclbra.uucp apm@icl.stc.co.uk MSDOS: Just say NO. ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!iclbra!apm