What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1991

Sound is a good way to triangulate a position. I can't imagine running a disk farm and not using the sounds to locate disharmony.

We did not use databases internally. All data base software was done in the lanaguage half of LCG development (Large Computer Group). IIRC, there was one, and only one, developer over time that had any operating system background. That Sumner Blount and he was a supervisor, not a coder, of RMS.

Sure. But database management was not our target audience in the early 70s; engineering, research and education was. DEC's answer to "database" as compebreastion was the KL with its instruction set. Until then database management was done only with COBOL's ISAM and I don't remember when that was first out.

DEC's folklore was not data base, period.

That is exactly my point. We did not understand large data base processing. IBM did but their folklore was based on that.

Yup. You could feel and-or hear that.

I don't think it has moved on; I think it has regressed.

Yes. And, if you are providing computing services, a useful security blanket is using different structures to keep competing customers separated.

This addresses keeping continuous, with no hiccuping, computing services delivery to your customers. It does not address ensuring that their bits stay separated.

It should be that way by now. Take a look at the PC generation and the lack of training of keeping bit storanges logically and physically separated. If you are a computing delivery service, you should want to keep sectors of your business separated in the backups, operations, storage, computations, etc. Think about a business that wants to sell a piece of itself. If some customers have been paying for privacy, you certainly cannot separate these bits by hand from the pieces that are sold.

For instance, it was reported this morning that Verizon is selling its phone book piece of its business. I've been thinking about the processes and data and bits flows that have been an integral part of that business. All unconscious buttumptions about this have to be recognized and "corrected" within the bowels of the processing in that company.

Then I got started thinking about other IT and the potential messes of computing services. Now I'm thinking about idiots who have outsourced their sources and all work connected with them.

BAH