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From: beyer@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (jean-david.beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 25th Anniversary of 36 Bits
Summary: Newsgroup  naming  confusion
Keywords: 36-bits DEC-10 DEC-20 DECUS
Message-ID: <3728@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 89 12:47:36 GMT
References: <3624@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <428@pp.ACA.MCC.COM> <4564@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <4564@shlump.nac.dec.com>, michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) writes:
> In article <3624@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, beyer@cbnewsh.ATT.COM
> (jean-david.beyer) writes:
> > Am I missing something. The PDP-6 and PDP-10 were not the first
> > 36-bit machines. The IBM701 was 36bit data (instructions 18 bit, 2 per
> > word), and the 704 of the mid '50's was 36bit word data and instructions.
> > So we are past the 30 birthday of 36 bit machines.
> 	this newgroup is comp.org.decus :-)  Why would a
> 	DECUS related event celebrate birthdays for
> 	IBM machines? :-)
> 


I get it. On my machine, this newsgroup is called comp.arch, not comp.org.
decus.

Hence the confusion.

Actually, were anyone wishing to celebrate an IBM machine, it sure
would not be a recent one.

THe last one I managed to like was a 7094. It is  hard to like anything
they did since, unless one is a stockholder.


-- 
Jean-David Beyer
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Holmdel, New Jersey, 07733
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