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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:01:13 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Early Unix function calls: expensive?
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Tim Bradshaw scripsit:

> The VAX architecture and its performance horrors must have killed DEC,
> I guess.

Like most things, it was overdetermined:  the Rainbow and the lack of
insight it represented was another major cause.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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