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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: mungofitch ✹✺🐝 SILVER
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Subject: Re: OT: Crowdstrike
Date: 07/27/24 11:11 AM
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I spent a pleasant summer at AT&T Pixel Machines programming the DSP 32C, which was something like a 32-bit PDP-11 with fast floating point. 68020 was nice, but I actually enjoyed writing some assembly language for the DSP 32C.

Maybe serious programming shouldn't be easy. All I ask is that nobody here on the board bid against me for Paul Allen's Cray-1 : )
christies.com - Pushing boundaries ingenuity from the paul g allen collection NYC

I presume it is now merely a sculpture. As I recall, you need a different model of Cray-built minicomputer just to boot the sucker, and MTBF was about 50 hours even when it was new, assuming you did the two hours a day of preventative maintenance. But I still want it. I've been trying to track down a complete-but-empty original cabinet for sale for 20 years.

Jim
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