What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1972

Right. Please list the HHL you've used. COBOL, FORTRAN, PL-I? Wann start with 4GLs?

CISC buttembler is better than RISC due to availability of the translator.

I have looked at a few and they appear mundane compared to CISC. RISC sort of makes you want to write primatives right away to get away from the limited set rather than relying on it exclusively as you can do with CISC. I understand that the speeds we have today could not be achieved with CISC-only technology.

Well the latest Sun version used 'long long int' which I hadn't seen on a Sun compiler before, though the SGIs we had did have it.

That and that IBM wanted to license it rather than what they did with ISA (i.e. allow it to be open). The industry told them to shove it and implemented VESA localbus and eventually adopted Intel's PCI, thus killing micrchannel for good.

PCI was an integrated solution to the ISA-16 VESA LB add-on problem. Who wants half a bus running at 12 MHz and the other 33 MHz? PCI allowed the whole damn thing to run at 33 MHz and was smaller.

Eric