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[Andrew Merritt x2109]

%>
%>[...] IBM became big by being reliable; they never
%>did anything really new so what they had was most likely going to
%>work.
%
%Aren't you ignoring things like RISC and Virtual Memory? Of course, this
%was all about 20 years ago, but to say they "never did anything really 
%new" seems pretty off-base...
%

Ah, the Big Blue version of history again.  IBM did not invent Virtual Memory.
See the work done by Aspinall et al. on the MU5 at Manchester University.

	Andrew.

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