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Clem Cole:

  Yep -- but not surprising.   There were a bunch of folks at DG that had
  worked on a single-level store system (Project Fountain-Head) that had
  failed [some of that story is described in Kidder's book].

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Are you sure?  I thought Fountainhead was a Rand project.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

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