{"id":917,"date":"2010-06-13T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=917"},"modified":"2010-06-13T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T15:36:24","slug":"you-just-answered-your-own-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/13\/you-just-answered-your-own-question\/","title":{"rendered":"You just answered your own question&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From one of those strange wending web-browsing sessions that started as innocent &#8220;work-related research&#8221; and ended up following the history of CDC&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>IBM, 1964:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHow is it that this tiny company of 34 people \u2014including the janitor \u2014 can be beating us when we have thousands of people?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;to which Cray reportedly quipped:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Control_Data_Corporation\">You just answered your own question.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(and, incidentally, FUD &#8211; a phrase I associated with the 1990&#8217;s and linux &#8211; apparently dates back to the early 20th century. It puts in an appearance here, in the 1960&#8217;s, and lead to CDC winning a lawsuit for $600 million. Nice. Can you imagine someone pulling that one off against Microsoft in the 1995-2005 era? Or Apple, today? I doubt it&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From one of those strange wending web-browsing sessions that started as innocent &#8220;work-related research&#8221; and ended up following the history of CDC&#8230; IBM, 1964: How is it that this tiny company of 34 people \u2014including the janitor \u2014 can be beating us when we have thousands of people? &#8230;to which Cray reportedly quipped: You just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}