Thanks to Guinness Publishing Ltd for sending us a review copy of the new Guinness Book of Records: priced at UKP12.99, the book is a bumper issue: pity the sole page that’s relevant to us is so out of date and factually inaccurate – ICL Plc does not own the Distributed Array Processor, DAP, any more – that went in a spin-out to Active Memory Technology; secondly, 256m 64-bit words on the Cray-2 does not result in 32M-bytes – it’s more like 2Gb, and the leading edge has moved on a bit from the one megabit dynamic random access memory chip – still, the rest of the book is good fun if you don’t take it too seriously.
