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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 80286, flaming and Multics
Message-ID: <1188@frog.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 89 02:53:00 GMT
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Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
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In article <18878@adm.BRL.MIL>, dana@bilbo.locus (Dana Myers) writes:
>   The 80286 was designed by people who liked Multics and figured they would
> make the perfect microprocessor to run Multics on.

These people were doing some really heavy-duty drugs at the time, right?
Or were they just inhaling raw gasoline?

>So, Multics was designed 20 years ago... so what? ;-)

And it is still the state of the art that everyone pats themselves on the
back for reinventing, piecemeal and badly...
-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101
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