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We Should All Remember When Burroughs Was Using Virtual Memory It Was Said To Be Some Kind Of Technical Joke.
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We should all remember when Burroughs was using Virtual memory it was said to
be some kind of technical joke. But later, hah, it was said to be ok.
And it was because the word had come down from the mountain.
IBM had spoken and the world listened.
The world as it used to be.
Amen.
-- Fred Rump
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