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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <5676@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 20:10:05 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <1259@ccnysci.UUCP> sukenick@ccnysci.UUCP (SYG) writes:
>PDP-10 (`Dec System 10', that is :-)

DEC's name changes are usually very subtle.  

The PDP-10 became the DECSystem-10 gradually enough that Computer
Abstracts didn't notice, and listed both separately for some years.

More recently note the gradual transformation of the VAX-11/xxx into
the VAX xxxx.
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