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- From: catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
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- Subject: Re: More people would use gopher if ...
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:27:51 GMT
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- In-reply-to: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 16 Nov 92 12:40:06 GMT
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- In article <Bxt76u.2Mz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek) writes:
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- >Heh. Until this year, MIT students in Course 6 (that's Electrical
- >Enginerring and Computer Science, for those of you who don't use
- >numbers for EVERYTHING :-) started out programming in Scheme on a
- >machine made by HP, called a `Chipmunk'. This last year, they were
- >replaced with HP 9000 `Snakes'.
-
- I was refferring to a machine developed - and marketed - on a large
- scale. So don't tell me HP a model Chipmunk or Snakes - those were names
- given by your school.
-
- Wrong. The HP 9000-700 series of machines is the HP "Snake" series of
- machines. There are actually specific names for the models, i.e. an
- HP 9000-720 is a viper or some such, but everyone I know just refers
- to them as Snakes. This includes third party vendors of products for
- the HP Snakes; I've spoken with quite a few of them, as HP peripheral
- prices vary quite a bit.
-
-
- - Tony
- catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu
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