darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP (Darrell Long) (01/20/86)
Alright, enough of this shift nonsense... Let's see, I suppose that I should try to start something new... How's this: does anyone know the why IBM could not release the news of their 801 project until just recently? I understand it has something to do with lawsuits and Reagan. Or, better yet, has anyone yet seen one of the Fairchild CLIPPER machines? From the marketing cruft I got from Fairchild, it would appear that they have done just about everything right. -- Darrell Long Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, San Diego UUCP: sdcsvax!darrell ARPA: darrell@sdcsvax
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (01/22/86)
> ...does anyone know the > why IBM could not release the news of their 801 project until just > recently?... Huh? The 801 was not exactly accompanied by a blaze of publicity, but the first paper describing it was in the ASPLOS [?] proceedings some years ago. There hasn't been any secret about it for a long time. You haven't seen any IBM marketing hype because it was not a product, just an internal experiment and then a research tool. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry