Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!bloom-beacon!ucbvax!XEROX.COM!"John_D._Sybalsky.AISNorth"
From: "John_D._Sybalsky.AISNorth"@XEROX.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: RE: [walls%ssl.span@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov: RE: Re: Standalone VP
 booting]
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Date: 8 Nov 88 17:46:59 GMT
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In mild defense of the 1186, it's perhaps worth pointing out that the
hardware was designed as a single-user, never-booted, OA workstation, and
took no account of Xerox AIS's needs as a Lisp workstation.  Given that
(myopic) viewpoint, the elimination of a reliable hardware clock might seem
sensible....

--John