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From: devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Burroughs users?
Message-ID: <124@vianet.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 20:08:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 19 20:08:19 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Jan-87 18:51:20 EST
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Summary: a lamentation for Burroughs...

In article <3789@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:
> When Burroughs bought System Development Corporation, a certain VP there
> said, "Okay, now SDC gets to drag Burroughs kicking and screaming into
> the 20th century."  I can say that now because Burroughs doesn't exist
> anymore.

  When I was at Burroughs' Distributed Systems Group I once made the
comment, because we were proposing a radical alternative to the existing
unwieldy Cobol-eating mainframes, that some day Burroughs would be known
as "Burroughs -- A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of DSG".  Guess who had the
last laugh.  19th Century over the 20th by a score of 2 - 0...

> Now that we're Unisys, we're #2.

  If you have a childish mind, you'll see the unintended double meaning.

Bob Devine