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| From | Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: An Xmyth stack overflow ? |
| Date | 2020-12-12 01:55 -0400 |
| Organization | Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop |
| Message-ID | <87im97d0up.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <rqutjc$sjs$1@dont-email.me> <87360cevxl.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <rr0csg$pso$3@gal.iecc.com> <55f722ff-9411-45f6-8bc3-13d44c911fb3n@googlegroups.com> <rr16t31si7@news4.newsguy.com> |
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
> On 2020-12-11, Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> wrote:
>
>> The above reply applies to the IBM 1620 Model I (one). The word
>> "CADET" was the code name before the first delivery, it was just a
>> code word; almost all IBM hardware had a code name assigned to it
>> during design/production before the first delivery. They were just
>> names. The model II (two) didn't use lookup tables except for
>> multiplication.
>> [snip]
>
> Sounds familiar, like the way the original IBM Personal Computer
> was crippled so as not to compete with the Displaywriter.
>
> I do love the cleverness of that CADET back-formation, though...
Digressing to arbitrary code names, I've always thought that, having
released a system called XP, Microsoft's next system might reasonably
have been expected to be called JHVH.
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