Thread: Sick, no. Frustrated, yes
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Old 01-10-2011, 07:09 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Sick, no. Frustrated, yes
On 10/01/2011 04:57 PM, wrote:
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Emery Davis wrote:

Baz, do you know that (Dr) Nick Maclaren is a well respected lecturer in
computing at Cambridge? He is well positioned to know what he is
talking about. Sometimes it is well worth while to listen to those "in
the know." No offense intended, just saying.

Strictly, I am not a Lecturer, though I do lecture :-) And it is
my wife that has the PhD :-)


Heh. I got it partly right. I did see Dr somewhere, but it just goes to
show how much you can believe from the internet!

Nick, the old SiCortex module has made it into the computer museum.
Quite sad really.

Yes. It was a great pity the financiers killed that, as it had
great potential - I still don't understand exactly why they did.

I think there was a combination of things, the financial conjuncture,
the choice of Lazard, the inexperience of the new executive team after
John M. resigned. Not to mention we were late taping out the new CPU...
But the really odd thing was that the order book was completely full,
they couldn't build them fast enough. Oh well, greener pastures and all
that.

-E
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