Subject: Trivia (NOT Re: NCR Driver Problems)
To: None <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: current-users
Date: 01/27/1996 22:55:55
>> But, doesn't it seem that 1983 is a little out-dated in terms of
>> technology?
>
> Yes. But that doesn't mean it's not in use. The Sun-3 I use as an X
> terminal at home is a Sun-3/260 that was in regular service in 1983.
EWRONGMEM
Not to be a total anal-retentive I've-used-Suns-since-1983 weenie or anything,
but the 3/260 didn't exist in 1983. The Sun-3/160 was introduced in 1985.
(Pulls out his "Sun-3 Architecture: A Sun Technical Report" - written by
Andy Bechtolsheim and Michelle Arden - waxes nostalgic, etc. ... )
- Greg