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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: PR1ME 32I mode
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Date: 22 Oct 90 20:32:06 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.221803.5973@Stardent.COM> <4027@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <4027@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>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.

Prime Computer, Inc. has *never* written "Pr1me" in text.  That is a logo;
you don't think that workstation company is called "sunsunsunsun" because
of *their* logo, do you?

>My experience of those machines is confined to P400, PR1MOS
>(their spelling) Rev 11 to Rev 19.

PRIMOS has *never* been spelled "Pr1mos" by prime, nowhere, in no context, 
nohow.
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