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From: vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: DEC hardware manuals (really RISC) (really Titans)
Message-ID: <3147@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Date: 20 Jun 88 23:25:37 GMT
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In article <11990@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> (Ah well: we already have our revenge :-) , as the RISC machines sweep
> past DEC while DEC's marketing dithers.  If they had brought out their
> RISC [nicknamed Titan, I believe] four years ago, they might have the
> lead.)

Maybe so.  DEC WRL has a thing we call a "Titan," and it's RISC, but I
don't know if it was ever planned as a product.  (I've checked with some
folks around here and they've told me that the box is no secret, so I'm
not going to be fired for talking about it.)

We had the name before Dana/Ardent existed, but since it wasn't going
to be a product, the name didn't get trademarked.  Sigh.  So now when I
go out to dinner with friends from Ardent and I tell them the latest
thing I found trying to make X11 clients work on a Titan, they get
confused.  "Oh, the DEC Titan."  "No, the _Titan_.  You work on the
Ardent Titan."  Smiles all around.

Great boxes, though.  I would have recommended to my clients that they
purchase them, back when I was a consultant, except that they aren't a
product and I'd never heard of them before I came here anyway.

Just setting a small part of the story straight.

Disclaimer: just me, folks.
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