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From: "erik quanstrom" <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: "Jim McKie" <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com>, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 64-Bit programming model.
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Date: Sat,  1 Oct 2005 18:43:05 -0500
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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:
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| > ...
| >
| > 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