From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: aps@ieee.org (Armando Stettner)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:40:22 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] Early Unix function calls: expensive?
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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
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