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From: "erik quanstrom" <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: "Jim McKie" <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com>, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 64-Bit programming model.
Date: Sat,  1 Oct 2005 18:43:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051001234305.3D22719DE9A@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.sxzoe0rvqv20vd@jmk.lra.lucent.com>

1300W. oh, come on. what kind of wimpy machine is that!
the vax 11/780s that were my introduction to unix needed 1300W
to power the pdp boot processor. and that was 1988.

- erik

"Jim McKie" <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com> writes

| 
| On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:46:21 -0400, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
| 
| > ...
| >
| > all the world's a vax ... hey, wait a minute. i've done this once before.
| >
| > erik
| 
| this won't be new to some of you, but i actually saw
| one of these for sale in a supermarket yesterday:
| 
| 	http://www.vax.co.uk/6140.asp


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-01 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-30 11:31 Vester Thacker
2005-09-30 13:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-30 15:18   ` David Leimbach
2005-09-30 15:44   ` Karl Magdsick
2005-09-30 16:06     ` Charles Forsyth
     [not found]     ` <45544405a9a74e554cd5b645a672fb3e@terzarima.net>
2005-09-30 16:14       ` Karl Magdsick
2005-09-30 16:21         ` Russ Cox
2005-09-30 16:53         ` bakul+plan9
2005-09-30 16:14   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-09-30 18:07     ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-30 19:01       ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-01 13:52         ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-01 23:37           ` Ronald G Minnich
     [not found] ` <f344c691fd8960b43b2c77f308ed2ea3@terzarima.net>
2005-09-30 21:27   ` Vester Thacker
2005-09-30 23:28     ` Jim McKie
2005-10-01  3:09       ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-01  3:19         ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-10-01  4:46           ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-01 22:50             ` Jim McKie
2005-10-01 23:43               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2005-10-01 13:50           ` Russ Cox
2005-10-01 18:28             ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-10-01 14:28       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-01 14:20     ` Charles Forsyth

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