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Article #5Re: Toll the bell, break the glasses
From: Eugene Miya
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 1990 21:24
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 1990 21:24
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In article <27151@ut-emx.UUCP> kjm@ut-emx.UUCP writes:
>In article <3792@tahoe.unr.edu>,
lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu (LARRY SMITH) writes:
>> is being replaced with an IBM 3090.
>
>I can't imagine how that could possibly be an improvement... No matter
>what the IBM is running.
Hum, for quite a while (pre-U*), I was very impressed with developments
I saw throughout IBM: third party software like Wylbur, in house
software like the SPF, numerous languages and packages, user group help,
what did I uses CDCs for? Speed, pure raw speed (Thorton's book)
[languages? ha! (yes yes yes, I know your line, I sat on the Pascal
Standards Committee)]. Yes, IBM has got some fine software/products:
like EPISLE. Manuals which one could devel through and fix a machine!
Yes, fine, company, IBM. Maker of business machines, and they mean
business. 8)
Another gross generalization from
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ames!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Toll the bell, break the glasses Message-ID: <6648@eos.UUCP> Date: 29 Mar 90 21:24:31 GMT References: <1545@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> <3792@tahoe.unr.edu> <27151@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 28