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From: schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
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Date: 14 Oct 90 17:22:52 GMT
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In article <1990Oct13.035313.174@ingres.Ingres.COM> jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger) writes:
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>If "most current micros" means boxes sold, you're referring to a class
>of machines whose small physical spaces and ancient operating systems
>get diminishing returns on increased processor speed. 

To nit-pick: The IBM PC (and it's operating system) is quite new
when compared to IBM OS/360, Unix, VMS, etc.

As Jon points out elsewhere in his article, newer does not mean better.
By the same token, bad does not mean ancient.

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