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To: 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:51:15 +0000
From: William Cowan <wmcowan@uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] parallels
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erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:

> it's unfortunate that computer history isn't a bigger
> component of a computer science degree.  in the
> case of vm, it's not even history; still alive and doing
> quite well as z/(vm|os) on slightly modified power arch
> hardware.

> - erik

Not very mysterious to me. There's not very much science in computer
science. If we didn't forget it we wouldn't be able to re-invent it, and
there would go most of the interesting work, not to mention a lot of
high salary jobs.

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