Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!goanna!ok
From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: PR1ME 32I mode
Message-ID: <4027@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 22 Oct 90 00:35:09 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.221803.5973@Stardent.COM>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1990Oct20.221803.5973@Stardent.COM>, wright@stardent.Stardent.COM (David Wright @stardent) writes:
> >ok> I'm sure that PR1ME's architects were overjoyed to have a chance of
> By the way, the name of the company is Prime,
> not Pr1me or PR1ME, so could we all stop being just ever so cute about it?

Speaking as usual only for myself, when I wrote "Pr1me" and the like I
was *not* being "ever so cute"; I was writing it the way Prime themselves
wrote it.  My experience of those machines is confined to P400, PR1MOS
(their spelling) Rev 11 to Rev 19.  We had Fortran, assembler, and a
crummy BASIC interpreter.  We also had the world's worst terminals
(a stuttering RETURN key made editing incredibly painful) but that wasn't
Prime's fault.  (And yes, they spelled it PR1MOS, not Primos.)

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