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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
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Date: 28 Sep 90 03:02:00 GMT
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DEC VAX-11/780
	- first commercial supermini.
	  ^^^^^

Second commercial supermini?  I think Perkin-Elmer had the first
32-bit supermini (but it could have been Gould).  How about:

DEC VAX-11/780
	- began RISC backlash that lasted more than a generation