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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Continuations
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:01:51 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:26:44 -0400, EricP wrote:

> This could also have been a RT PC as our port project was
> running around 1987 and straddled the RS6000 launch in 1990.
> (so I might have got my 'R's mixed up.)
> 
> And according to Wikipedia RT's were notoriously slow.

That sounds much more like it, to be honest. What you were saying was 
totally at odds with the reputation for performance that IBM POWER, and 
later PowerPC, was gathering.