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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
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%>
%>[...] 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.

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