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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] authorization schemes (was CORBA)
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From: "Ronald G Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
> Hmm, a buddy of mine worked on the 780. Plus we bought one or two on
> product intro, so I was kind of there for it. So I asked all those neurons
> back in the limbic system that were alive back then and they're certain
> the 750 was later. But sometimes they like to mess with my head.

yeah, i was just assuming.  my badge # was 248622, which was well
after the introduction of the vax.

> The 750 was a truly awful piece of gear.

yeah ctrl-p halted the cpu (iirc), but on the 780 it got you into
console mode.  the 780 was _big_, but i could cope with it.