80286, flaming and Multics

[John Woods]

In article <18878 at adm.BRL.MIL>, dana at bilbo.locus (Dana Myers) writes:
>   The 80286 was designed by people who liked Multics and figured they would
> make the perfect microprocessor to run Multics on.

These people were doing some really heavy-duty drugs at the time, right?
Or were they just inhaling raw gasoline?

>So, Multics was designed 20 years ago... so what? ;-)

And it is still the state of the art that everyone pats themselves on the
back for reinventing, piecemeal and badly...
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