Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances?? Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 21:33:52 GMT References: <1990Oct13.035313.174@ingres.Ingres.COM> <3450@bnr-rsc.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <3450@bnr-rsc.UUCP> bcarh185!schow@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes: > To nit-pick: The IBM PC (and it's operating system) is quite new > when compared to IBM OS/360, Unix, VMS, etc. Au contraire. The IBM-PC operating system was obsolete in 1965 (or whenever the first timeshare system went online). The fact that it wasn't implemented for another 16 years is irrelevant. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com