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On 27 Jan 97 at 15:58, Dale R. Worley wrote: > Well, I suspect that he was rather severely extending the truth. > Looking at RFC 1531 <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1531.txt> (October > 1993), I see 21 references, but none of them name Microsoft. There is > an "Acknowledgments" section: I would think that you are most probably correct. Like IBM, and the former Soviet Union, Microsoft likes to claim that it invented something when in fact they probably just discovered it. Kind of like Columbus discovering America a few thousand years after the Indians did? I also was in the presence of an IBM executive who made the same claim regarding virtual memory, when in fact IBM was probably the last mainframe manufacturer to actually use it. So, I stand corrected. +----------------------------------------------+ | Gerald Feldman <gaf at highway1.com> | | Boston Computer Solutions and Consulting | +----------------------------------------------+
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