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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Slandering Intel
Message-ID: <76700071@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 89 21:33:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jun  5 16:33:00 1989


>In article <20275@obiwan.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
>Gee, if I was hiring someone, I'd be sorely tempted to throw those resumes
>in the garbage as soon as I saw that line.  Not something to be proud of
>in my books! :-) :-)
>-- 
>Van Allen, adj: pertaining to  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>deadly hazards to spaceflight. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.

Well, if you're going to point fingers, why don't you blame MIT and
project MAC?  They were the one of the ones that took segmentation to
outrageous extremes to begin with.  Intel was only copying them.

And if you wish MIT project MAC had never happened, then why not throw
away all your Berkeley UNIX manuals, since there wouldn't have been
UNIX if it weren't for two guys who had a knee-jerk reaction to Multics.

History's greatest mistakes give rise to history's greatest successes.
When there is failure (Multics, VAX architecture, i8086) it causes
fanatics to go 180 degrees in the other direction, often with good
results (Unix, RISC, Awesome 8x86 optimizing compiler technology).

Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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