From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] core
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:05:09 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1806160855070.68981@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180615152542.E1EC918C08C@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> This story repets itself over and over again, though: one of the
> Watson's saying there was a probably market for <single-digit> of
> computers; Ken Olsen saying people wouldn't want computers in their
> homes; etc, etc.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that these were urban myths... Does
anyone have actual references in their contexts?
E.g. Watson was talking about the multi-megabuck 704/709/7094 etc, and I
think that Olsens's quote was about the DEC-System 10...
-- Dave, who has been known to be wrong before
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-15 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-15 15:25 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-15 23:05 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-06-15 23:22 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-06-16 6:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-16 19:07 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-18 9:25 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-19 20:45 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-19 22:55 ` David Arnold
2018-06-20 5:04 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-20 5:41 ` Warner Losh
2018-06-20 8:10 ` [TUHS] Old mainframe I/O speed (was: core) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-20 16:33 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-21 3:05 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-21 14:00 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-21 14:49 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-21 20:39 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-22 5:32 ` Erik E. Fair
2018-06-22 13:32 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-23 6:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-23 17:02 ` ron minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-06-21 22:44 [TUHS] core Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-21 23:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-06-21 23:38 ` Toby Thain
2018-06-21 17:40 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-21 17:07 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-21 13:46 Doug McIlroy
2018-06-21 16:13 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-20 20:11 Doug McIlroy
2018-06-20 23:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-19 12:23 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-19 12:58 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-19 13:53 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-21 14:09 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-19 11:50 Doug McIlroy
[not found] <20180618121738.98BD118C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
2018-06-18 21:13 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-18 17:56 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-18 18:51 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-18 14:51 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-18 14:58 ` Warner Losh
[not found] <mailman.1.1529287201.13697.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-06-18 5:58 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-18 12:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-17 21:18 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-17 17:58 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-18 9:16 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-18 15:33 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-17 14:36 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-17 15:58 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-06-16 22:57 Noel Chiappa
[not found] <mailman.1.1529175600.3826.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-06-16 22:14 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-16 22:38 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-17 0:15 ` Clem cole
2018-06-17 1:50 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-17 10:33 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-20 16:55 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-20 21:35 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-20 22:24 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-16 13:49 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-16 14:10 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-16 14:34 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-16 15:28 ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-16 14:10 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-06-16 14:13 ` William Pechter
2018-06-16 13:37 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-16 18:59 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-17 12:15 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-06-17 17:33 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-17 19:50 ` Jon Forrest
2018-06-18 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-18 12:36 ` Tony Finch
2018-06-16 12:58 Doug McIlroy
2018-06-20 11:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-16 12:51 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-16 13:11 ` Clem cole
2018-06-15 11:19 A. P. Garcia
2018-06-15 13:50 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-15 14:21 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-15 15:11 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-15 15:21 ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-16 1:08 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-16 2:00 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-06-16 2:17 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-16 3:06 ` Clem cole
2018-06-20 10:06 ` Dave Horsfall
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