Denys, your encyclopedic knowledge awes us all. :-)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Denys Beauchemin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:33 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] The end of the Alpha architecture.
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.
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Ann Arbor, MI 48103
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