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[Alex Martelli]

"Karl M. Syring" <syring at email.com> wrote in message
news:a1ibhn$qt4bg$1 at ID-7529.news.dfncis.de...
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> Once upon a time, there was a company that controlled the hardware and the
> software market. Although some people say that it induced a statsi of 20
> years, it was finally toppled.

Interesting -- WHICH "twenty years" were the "stasis"?  Perhaps those
which saw the birth and wildfire-like spread of Unix, C, relational
database management systems, Pascal, interactive terminals, ... ?-)


Alex