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Article #424Re: 80960KA and KB
From: Ed Braaten
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 21:42
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 21:42
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In article <1080@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU> mac@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (Alex Colvin) writes:
>> What does BiiN mean?
>
>well, since BiiT stands for "Because it is There", BiiN must be "... Not".
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>Isn't it a Siemens/Intel venture to produce Ada systems?
It WAS a Siemens/Intel venture to produce fault-tolerant computer
systems. It is no longer because Siemens/Intel decided that the
profits were too far out in the future. As far as I know the name
is NOT an acronym...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!altger!doitcr!braaten!ed From: ed@braaten.doit.sub.org (Ed Braaten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: 80960KA and KB Summary: What does/did BiiN mean... Message-ID: <622@braaten.doit.sub.org> Date: 13 Mar 90 21:42:11 GMT References: <1080@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU> Reply-To: ed@braaten.doit.sub.org (Ed Braaten) Organization: Systems Engineering, Intel GmbH, Munich, West Germany Lines: 18