>>>> "William" == William
Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> writes:
> Given that a fair number of CC contributors are
European, this is
> slightly surprising. Not that Philips ever was a particularly
> impressive computer maker, but they did have some interesting
> machines.
William> Yes, but Phillips was never even a dream close to being part
William> of the BUNCH or IBM.
William> "Interesting" does not always mean "historically
William> significant", as well. There are many "firsts" in the field
William> of computering that did not amount to a hill of beans -
William> often the "seconds" are the ones that matter. History tends
William> to be defined by the common stuff, basically.
True. But other computer makers of even lower stature have shown up
on the CC list, and in bitsavers. Apart from the big ones, it seems
to be just a random process that determines which machines appear and
which ones do not. For example, I can't think of any other reason why
Varian would show up in Al's archive and Philips would not...
paul