Eclipse.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Tom Brandt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:14 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: The end of the Alpha architecture.

Except it wasn't the DEC VAX, it was Data General's answer to the VAX. I
have forgotten what the DG machine was called.

At 04:23 PM 6/26/2001 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>X-no-Archive:yes
>I forget where, but I remember Nick Negroponte writing that he knew a lot of
>people who had read "The Soul of a New Machine" (I have not, but should). He
>also wrote that he liked to ask them, what was the eponymous "new machine"?
>He was struck by how few readers appreciated, or at least remembered, that
>it was DEC's VAX.

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Tom (read the book a while ago) Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/

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