Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: ma...
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 18:09

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On 2018-07-28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> On 28 Jul 2018 15:47:53 GMT
> ma...@mail.com wrote:
>
>> When was the word microsoft registered.? 
>
> 	Mid 1970s.
>
>> I remember that in `Neuromancer', there was a device mentioned that one
>> stuck in one's brain.
>
> 	Neuromancer was published in 1984 so Microsoft had been around for
> some time then
>
>> (Oh, same difference!)
>
> 	I recall thinking when I read it that there was no way I'd connect
> anything from Microsoft to my brain.
>

My point exactly. I think that more recently, although Gibson is a very good writer,
he knows little about computers. I read somewhere that he was very disappointed with 
the first Mac's.




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