[comp.lang.prolog] A comment on Fifth Generation Project

ciancarini-paolo@cs.yale.edu (paolo ciancarini) (03/14/91)

An interesting quotation from newsgroup comp.os.research:

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Article 962 of comp.os.research:

In article <13252@darkstar.ucsc.edu> weiser@parc.xerox.com (Mark Weiser) writes:
>The members of japanese industrial labs with whom I have spoken indicated
>to me that Tron was nothing to worry about, it was not going anywhere,

I just got back from 4 weeks in Japan and the general impression I got
substantiates that.  TRON is as dead as a doornail.  Even deader than
the ICOT Fifth Generation Project which was going to revolutionize
computing.  If you want an operating system that is full of vitality and
has a great future, use OS/2.

Andy Tanenbaum

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Sic transit gloria mundi ?

Paolo Ciancarini