🚀 go-pugleaf

mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) writes:

>cczanj@vax.nott.ac.uk (Andy Jack) writes:
>
>>Could this be the Dave Houghton that I sat next to when at Kings College
>>Londonin the 60's?
>
>	It might just be *A* Dave Houghton, not *THE* Dave Houghton. Since
>Chips&Technologies made the basic Houghton ASICs, there's been a glut of
>cheap copies coming in from the pacific rim. I've heard horror stories of
>folks who bought Daves and couldn't get them to talk to any of the other
>Daves in their Dave-pool. Signatics makes a few pretty good ones, and
>they're surprisingly cheap!
>
Now this opens our eyes. We believed we've got the original Dave Houghton
made by natural biological method in 1955 in Liverpool. Can't believe that
this was seen at Kings College in the 60's. But at least our Dave is a very
good fake (clone?). It even knows all the Cricket Terms. Say something Dave!
(Well, maybe we should go underground, I mean email)

Osmo Kujala   VMS system mangler
              Computing Centre
              Jyvaskyla University

PS. If somebody knows where to find statistics or something, that could
    show the developement of share (circulation) of operating systems
    please mail to me (kujala@jyu.fi) or Dave (houghton@jyu.fi) (Mainly
    I want to see how much and how fast unix is pushing away VMS)