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Article #625368Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Quadibloc
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:16
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 22:16
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On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 3:26:56 PM UTC-6, Peter Flass wrote: > Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: > > Gibson in an interview I remember from the 80s said he misunderstood what the > > company was doing, and thought that the name would become a generic like > > "kleenex" or "xerox". > Or ex-lax. Come to think of it, that is actually an old joke... the computer in the Hepburn-Tracy movie "Desk Set" was called EMERAC... no, that's not quite what I was looking for... Ah, yes, I got it confused with the computer EPICAC from the works of Kurt Vonnegut. Ipecac being a natural laxative. John Savard
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