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 More options Apr 29 1986, 1:53 pm
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From: mcjo...@magic.UUCP
Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 13:53:47 EDT
Local: Tues, Apr 29 1986 1:53 pm
Subject: Re: xeroX slime ad warning (really Meta 4)
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I'm afraid Bob Lewis is "mixing his metaphors":

     Just to put things in perspective, one of the big plusses of
     the Sigma-7 was its programmable microcode, and the gang at
     UCSD was really looking forward to getting a machine which
     could emulate an IBM 1130!  The name of the emulating OS was
     "Meta-4", one of the best examples of pre-UNIX puns in the
     computing industry.

The Meta 4 was a microprogrammable machine built by Digital
Scientific Corp. around 1970.  Its main purpose was indeed to
emulate the IBM 1130, although it could be reprogrammed for other
purposes.  (In 1972 I microprogrammed a Meta 4 to execute a "P-code"
for a subset of APL at the Center for Research in Management Science
at the University of California at Berkeley.)

Paul McJones  decwrl!mcjones  mcjo...@src.dec.com


 
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