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To: AlexisHeavyMetal1981

No.

ZiiP is a special Processor on some of the newer mainframes.

I mean ZIP, otherwise known as PKZip. I think the guy who invented PKZip worked for IBM at the time.


39 posted on 04/29/2012 9:11:58 AM PDT by djf (Life's a play, we're actors not authors, and nobody even cared to give us the script!)
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To: djf

I don’t think he ever worked directly for Big Blue. Iirc though he committed “suicide by schnapps” at a very young age.


62 posted on 04/29/2012 10:24:25 AM PDT by narses
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