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From: wright@stardent.Stardent.COM (David Wright @stardent)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.001346.4139@Stardent.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 00:13:46 GMT
Organization: Stardent Computer, Newton MA
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In article <3300185@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:


>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).

The VAX is no better than third, since the Prime P400 was on the market
ahead of the VAX.  In fairness, I believe that Prime was not first either.

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