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Andrew Merritt x2109
apm at oasis.icl.stc.co.uk
Mon Aug 15 17:34:15 AEST 1988
%>
%>[...] 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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