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From: aps@ieee.org (Armando Stettner)
Subject: [TUHS] Early Unix function calls: expensive?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:40:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <328D91D8-FF74-46EE-A281-5432716E6206@ieee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160104000113.GD1602@mercury.ccil.org>

I guess I experienced things a little differently: computer science basis notwithstanding, the VAX was hugely successful for DEC.

   aps.


> On Jan 3, 2016, at 4:01 PM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
> The native charset of SMS messages supports English, French, mainland
> Scandinavian languages, German, Italian, Spanish with no accents, and
> GREEK SHOUTING.  Everything else has to be Unicode, which means you get
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-03 23:35 Warren Toomey
2016-01-03 23:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-01-04  0:01   ` John Cowan
2016-01-04  4:40     ` Armando Stettner [this message]
2016-01-04  8:52       ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-01-04 17:29         ` Larry McVoy
2016-01-04 13:50       ` Clem Cole
2016-01-05  2:00       ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-05 15:13         ` Clem Cole
2016-01-05 16:46           ` John Cowan
2016-01-05 17:33             ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-01-05 17:42             ` Clem Cole
2016-01-05 17:28           ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-05 17:43             ` Clem Cole
2016-01-05 17:46               ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-05 18:03                 ` Warner Losh
2016-01-05 18:24                   ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-05 20:26                     ` scj
2016-01-05 20:49                     ` John Cowan
2016-01-05 23:24         ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-05 23:55           ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-04  0:00 ` John Cowan
2016-01-04  0:42 ` scj
2016-01-04 11:35   ` Tony Finch
     [not found] <mailman.3.1451865187.15972.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-01-04  1:08 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-04  1:29   ` Larry McVoy
2016-01-04  1:31 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-04  2:24 ` scj
2016-01-04  4:24   ` Larry McVoy
2016-01-04  1:59 Norman Wilson
2016-01-04 15:09 ` John Cowan
2016-01-04  2:21 Clem Cole
2016-01-04 12:53 Noel Chiappa

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