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From: vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H)
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Subject: Re: XDS940 computer (or Xerox Sigma 9)
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Date: 12 Jun 91 00:05:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.231151.16752@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
>cancelling the "Venus" project), many universities were upset and
>claimed they could not live without new DEC-10 series computers.
>Perhaps "Foonly" was the name of one of the companies organized in an
>attempt to build more DEC-10 - type machines.
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The Venus project was not cancelled.  You are thinking of Jupiter, which
was the same technology applied to the PDP-10.  Venus completed
successfully as the 8600 and 8650 products.

-- 
Hank van Cleef  
vancleef@iastate.edu	Iowa State University, Ames. Ia.
tmn!vancleef		The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Oh.