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From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: IBM claim that 370 has "64 bit architecture"
Message-ID: <669@mako.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 12:39:23 EST
Article-I.D.: mako.669
Posted: Thu Mar 28 12:39:23 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 31-Mar-85 02:39:22 EST
References: <408@teddy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

In article <408@teddy.UUCP> mas@teddy.UUCP (Mark A. Swanson) writes:
>IBM bought an add for the new PC AT/370 product...  The ad copy refers to the
>product as providing ~ "the power of the 64 bit architecture of the System
>370."...  This strikes me as rather outrageous hype.

What else could you expect from the company who started this micro "bit
inflation" fad?  Does anyone remember the the short article (InfoWorld?) when
some Intel VP "discovered" that their newly introduced 8 bit processor, the
8088, was actually a 16 bit processor?  It seems they "discovered" this by
reading an IBM PC ad in the WallStreet Journal!
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