What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2116
when i was doing page replacement algorithms as undergraduate in the 60s one of the principles was to perform overhead directly related to some activity...
Okay, what was DEC at the time they were bought by Compaq?
Yeah, I wasn't around whan Intel started and Motorola came up with the 6800 and how Zilog spun off of Intel and how MOS Technology made the 6502 (Son of Motorola). I rememebr when all their was was those 4 making chips, now follow along here... that sold any significant amount of computers with them in them. I used to work in a computer store years before, IBM created the PC, and ComputerLand, who eventually put the company I worked for out of business.
Worked for NEXT, look how it works for Adobe and their reader.
C & Unix and not PL-1 & and MVS took off not because the former is so much better than the latter, but that the former was simply cheaper.
toys The was The pieces that were profitable had been sold to other companies, some of whom are still making that stuff. Compaq wanted the tech support group and that's all. They got...
Did Alpha workstations run either VMS, Unix or NT?
Perhaps, but how come Sun surpbutted DEC in the Unix workstation market? I remember Sun starting with 68K-based systems, then switched to i386 (perhaps other was around), and eventually going to RISC w-Sparc.
When DEC created the Alpha you'd swear that they inveneted RISC, or so they like to lead you to believe it.
And they DEC was simply overpriced. Forgot to mention that part! The irony there is that so was HP but they seemed to get away with it.
Unless the group in India can come up to speed...
Are you saying that DEC end Compaq? Spell it out, man, and don't hold back!
Well what was it, profit or losses?
Eric
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2117
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