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Article #613RE: [walls%ssl.span@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov: RE: Re: Standalone VP booting]
From: John_D._Sybalsky.AISNorth
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1988 17:46
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1988 17:46
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In mild defense of the 1186, it's perhaps worth pointing out that the hardware was designed as a single-user, never-booted, OA workstation, and took no account of Xerox AIS's needs as a Lisp workstation. Given that (myopic) viewpoint, the elimination of a reliable hardware clock might seem sensible.... --John
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!bloom-beacon!ucbvax!XEROX.COM!"John_D._Sybalsky.AISNorth" From: "John_D._Sybalsky.AISNorth"@XEROX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: RE: [walls%ssl.span@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov: RE: Re: Standalone VP booting] Message-ID: <881109-213811-3131@Xerox> Date: 8 Nov 88 17:46:59 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: info-1100@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 7