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Date:Mon Dec 4 16:43:17 1992 
Subject:Re: A little Pop history 
From:cgra 
Volume-ID:921206.01 

In article <1992Dec1.003602.24498@leland.Stanford.EDU>, alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
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|>From: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
|>Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
|>Subject: Re: A little Pop history
|>Message-ID: <1992Dec1.003602.24498@leland.Stanford.EDU>
|>Date: 1 Dec 92 00:36:02 GMT
|>References: <Bxpqvt.Lq@deshaw.com> <BxqBIA.Kxq@cs.bham.ac.uk> <1992Nov26.054554.29579@philmtl.philips.ca> <1992Nov27.112318.3479@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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|>In-Reply-To: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer)
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|>In article <1992Nov27.112318.3479@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, andyh@syma (Andrew Holyer) writes:
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|>What has Intel's architecture to do with the 360 architecture?
|>-- 

Nothing. The IBM 360 developed into a monster, a nightmarish beast with an
ever-expanding instruction set and umpteen diffrent kinds of ways of addressing
memory beyond the tiny quantity envisaged by the original designers. Getting
anything to run on it required in-depth knowledge of internals of the OS.

None of these mistakes were repeated in IBM's Intel-based PCs...

%^)