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From: mike@turing.unm.edu.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)
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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 03:46:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 03:46:11 1987
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In article <6488@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
~In article <819@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
~>Why do you think DEC developed the Virtual Address Extension (VAX) in the
~>first place?
~
~To get a larger per-process address space!

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that VAX stands for VAST
Address Extension?  Or so I was told.


					Michael I. Bushnell
					a/k/a Bach II
					mike@turing.unm.edu
					{ucbvax,gatech}!unmvax!turing!mike
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