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by **Drew Wre** » Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:26:49

On an IBM website touting their quantum computer
breakthrough, closer examination of the picture reveals that
the hardware used is actually Sun gear.

Here's the URL of the announcement:
http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml

Here's a larger view of the picture in the upper right
corner. Note the Sun keyboard and monitor complete with
logos.

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/bios.nsf/pages/quantum.html/$FILE...

by **Dennis Clark** » Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:17:19

> On an IBM website touting their quantum computer
> breakthrough, closer examination of the picture reveals that
> the hardware used is actually Sun gear.

> Here's the URL of the announcement:
> http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml

> Here's a larger view of the picture in the upper right
> corner. Note the Sun keyboard and monitor complete with
> logos.

> http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/bios.nsf/pages/quantum.html/$FILE...

The hardware used is neither Sun gear nor IBM gear. The front end station
appears to be Sun but the real back-end is purely lab experimental equipment.

Dennis

by **G.T.** » Sun, 13 Jan 2002 00:43:55

> > On an IBM website touting their quantum computer
> > breakthrough, closer examination of the picture reveals that
> > the hardware used is actually Sun gear.

> > Here's the URL of the announcement:
> > http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml

> > Here's a larger view of the picture in the upper right
> > corner. Note the Sun keyboard and monitor complete with
> > logos.

> > http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/bios.nsf/pages/quantum.html/$FILE...

> The hardware used is neither Sun gear nor IBM gear. The front end station
> appears to be Sun but the real back-end is purely lab experimental equipment.

Yeah, but still, why Sun at all?

Greg

by **Jaso** » Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:43:36

Quote:> Yeah, but still, why Sun at all?
> Greg

I don't think that the question should be "Why Sun?" I think the
question should be, "Why OpenWindows?"

by **Stefaan A Eeckel** » Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:52:23

On 12 Jan 2002 20:43:36 -0800

> > Yeah, but still, why Sun at all?
> > Greg
> I don't think that the question should be "Why Sun?" I think the
> question should be, "Why OpenWindows?"

Maybe because the software was developed on that platform,
and it still works, and there is no need to fix something
that isn't broken just because it doesn't look like the
latest fad from Redmond?

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could only have originated in California." --Edsger Dijkstra

by **chad schro** » Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:09:11

> > Yeah, but still, why Sun at all?
> > Greg
> I don't think that the question should be "Why Sun?" I think the
> question should be, "Why OpenWindows?"

That's what I thought as well until I looked at the Really Big(tm)
image (that isn't there any more).

The window manager is someting Motif based. Probably CDE with
the toolbar iconified.

The real question is: Why a Type-5 keyboard? ick. :-)

chad

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chad at radix dot net

by **2097** » Wed, 30 Jan 2002 06:50:27

> > > Yeah, but still, why Sun at all?
> > > Greg
> > I don't think that the question should be "Why Sun?" I think the
> > question should be, "Why OpenWindows?"

> That's what I thought as well until I looked at the Really Big(tm)
> image (that isn't there any more).

> The window manager is someting Motif based. Probably CDE with
> the toolbar iconified.

> The real question is: Why a Type-5 keyboard? ick. :-)

> chad

'cause the caps lock key's in the right place ??

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