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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,umich.unix
- Subject: Re: DEC puts first marketroid on the moon
- Keywords: DEC INFOSHARE Alpha lunacy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.100304.616@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 10:03:04 GMT
- References: <1icj25INNe3u@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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- In article <1icj25INNe3u@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>, william@amadeus.stat.lsa.umich.edu (William Pietri) writes:
- |> [...]
- |>
- |> A new computer chip no bigger than a human finger nail, yet as powerful
- |> as the room-size supercomputers of ten years ago, is named as the
- |> world's fastest computer chip in the latest issue of the Guinness Book
- |> of Records. The new chip, called the Alpha AXP(TM), [...]
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- The thing that totally boggles me is that a (relatively) decent outfit
- like DEC should be bruiting their listing in a book as tacky as the
- GBR.
-
- (I forbear to mention what I think about Guinness' business practices,
- or my opinion of the McWhirters, who founded the GBR.)
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- Robin (Keep Radio 3 != Classic FM) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
- U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
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