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February 1996, Week 5

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Re: Today's announcement from Oracle
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 28 Feb 1996 07:05:06 -0700
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>From: Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
 
/snip
 
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>But my favorite example is, of course, HP-IB. In a 1968 "Electronics"
>magazine article, HP publicly acknowledged that I and Joe Ellington were the
>impetus for creation of the then brand-new HP-IB bus interface.
 
/snip
 
>When HP declared that HP-IB was obsolete a few years ago, I knew then that I
>was getting old -- if that fact wasn't already obvious enough to me.
 
Wirt,
 
Does this mean you've already beat the odds and have 'out-lived' the
'standard age' for your age group...?   :)
-- Jerry

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