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- From: kujala@jyu.fi (Osmo Kujala)
- Subject: Re: Convincing the management
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.101128.6319@jyu.fi>
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- References: <1993Jan19.122731.22750@jyu.fi> <00966E5A.AECED160@vax.nott.ac.uk> <1jjqcmINNhvr@sol.tis.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:11:28 GMT
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- mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
-
- >cczanj@vax.nott.ac.uk (Andy Jack) writes:
- >
- >>Could this be the Dave Houghton that I sat next to when at Kings College
- >>Londonin the 60's?
- >
- > It might just be *A* Dave Houghton, not *THE* Dave Houghton. Since
- >Chips&Technologies made the basic Houghton ASICs, there's been a glut of
- >cheap copies coming in from the pacific rim. I've heard horror stories of
- >folks who bought Daves and couldn't get them to talk to any of the other
- >Daves in their Dave-pool. Signatics makes a few pretty good ones, and
- >they're surprisingly cheap!
- >
- Now this opens our eyes. We believed we've got the original Dave Houghton
- made by natural biological method in 1955 in Liverpool. Can't believe that
- this was seen at Kings College in the 60's. But at least our Dave is a very
- good fake (clone?). It even knows all the Cricket Terms. Say something Dave!
- (Well, maybe we should go underground, I mean email)
-
- Osmo Kujala VMS system mangler
- Computing Centre
- Jyvaskyla University
-
- PS. If somebody knows where to find statistics or something, that could
- show the developement of share (circulation) of operating systems
- please mail to me (kujala@jyu.fi) or Dave (houghton@jyu.fi) (Mainly
- I want to see how much and how fast unix is pushing away VMS)
-