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John Pope
pope at vatican
Thu Aug 11 02:22:41 AEST 1988
In article <24355 at bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd at bu-cs (Jim Frost) writes:
>
>[...] 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...
>jim frost
>madd at bu-it.bu.edu
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John Pope
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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