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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Multiprogramming the Microcode: The B1700
Message-ID: <4015@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 19 Oct 90 02:05:22 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.001346.4139@Stardent.COM> <8052@scolex.sco.COM> <6120@omepd.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <6120@omepd.UUCP>, colwell@omews35.intel.com (Robert Colwell) writes:
> Alas, the world has already forgotten the Three Rivers Computer Perq.

How fortunate the world is.  I still have vivid, not to say lurid, memories
of the Perq.  Selectric keyboard, own Pascal dialect unlike anything else,
documentation (heh heh), floating point microcode that thought at one time
that 10.0*10.0 = 98.9.  Then there was the UNIX (well, sort of) version.
Give me an Orion any day.

-- 
Fear most of all to be in error.	-- Kierkegaard, quoting Socrates.