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From: mac@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (M. Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
Summary: multics/unix cynix
Message-ID: <958@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 90 01:54:55 GMT
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since this is the arch group, i'll suggest that multics required computers
with lots'a hardware to run, where unics ran on programmable data
processors.

perhaps the analogy could be to the xerox star, a nifty box that cost too
much, and sold too little.

followup to comp.os.nostalgia