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11 Oct 2024 09:16:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: RIP Gary Gygax  
From: Darren New
Date: 8 Mar 2008 14:22:58
Message: <47d2e792@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> VAX is... an old computer. Well, not old. More like ancient.

Pioneering, actually.  Lots of good ideas came out of the VAX. As an 
example, VAX stands for "Virtual Address eXtension", i.e., virtual memory.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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