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Re: Re : HP3000 Rebirth - San Diego etc
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Ron Burnett <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 May 1998 20:32:47 EST
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Mark Wilkinson said with the keeness of his ancestor's swords:

> What about some kind of "System Building" competition to build a
> small-scale online
> application from scratch using a standard set of tools or whatever. Work
> from a standard
> spec with three teams..
>
> The HP3000 MPE/iX team
> The UNIX team (HP9000 HP-UX)
> The i386 team (Windows NT)

Add Cognos' PowerHouse to the mix, and you'd do it in
oh ..... with a keen, rapid, accurate typist, say about
30 minutes.  On the HP3000 of course.  I do it daily.

And what's that about an 'i386' team?  Why not a Z80 (CPM)
team?

Ron Burnett
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