Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!isis!ico!rcd From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: weird word lengths Summary: slight irrelevant correction Message-ID: <1990Oct10.034828.8390@ico.isc.com> Date: 10 Oct 90 03:48:28 GMT References: <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <12857@encore.Encore.COM> <1990Oct9.224712.4101@ico.isc.com> Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO Lines: 13 This is even less relevant than the previous one, but if I don't correct it (and probably even if I do:-) I'll get toasted for the mistake. In article <1990Oct9.224712.4101@ico.isc.com>, I screwed up. Talking about the Bendix G-15, I said... > (console was a Selectric)... Now, any damned fool (except me:-) knows that the Selectric wasn't around in the early days of the G-15. It was an IBM electric typewriter, but it was *not* a Selectric. (And no, it wasn't a Flexowronger.) -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 ...Worst-case analysis must never begin with "No one would ever want..."