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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: IBM 801 (+ Clipper)
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 16:43:31 EST
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> ...does anyone know the
> why IBM could not release the news of their 801 project until just 
> recently?...

Huh?  The 801 was not exactly accompanied by a blaze of publicity, but
the first paper describing it was in the ASPLOS	[?] proceedings some
years ago.  There hasn't been any secret about it for a long time.
You haven't seen any IBM marketing hype because it was not a product,
just an internal experiment and then a research tool.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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