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What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2096
I don't think FTP has ever been a major application of Kerberos. It's a relative latecomer. Kerberos V4 was probably the first version that saw widespread use outside MIT...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2097
we use to go by and visit-checkup on project athena projects periodically, including kerberos. i have some memory of sitting thru a presentation & discussion...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2098
Precisely. That's what OEM's did. I earned quite a good living doing exactly that on a small scale. There was Intergraph, and Systime, and Olivetti, and Plessey... Lots of...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2099
If it were part of a larger system, then its physical size is not relevant. There are SOCs that would have taken untold floor space 30 years ago. If an OEM...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2100
All that said, why did DEC fail? My point was that DEC thought that Alpha was their saving grace, bet the farm on it...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2101
And what everyone else is saying is: So what. DEC was not in the business of...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2102
So they didn't sell Alphas to the public? Hell, then what was that seminar for that I attended back in 1992...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2103
Let me get in a few data points here. I was there as a developer and manager of transaction-based systems that communicated realtime to a user base in the tens of thousands...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2104
PCs, as they were promoted by IBM for business, were a giant leap sideways. They proliferated because they played better games...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2105
Certainly not reading for comprehension. I can accept that Digital *did* attempt to sell at the chip...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2106
I think you need a crowbar. The kid is not understanding this point. DEC didn't tell their customers how to use their gear after they bought it. It was their gear. They could...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2107
ASCI-Q (the 8,192 processor Alpha system) is an HP SC-45. Most of the top computers...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2108
there was an article on such work within the past six months ... but I can't seem to find it now. quick search engine use doesn't find it ... although...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2109
depending on the system structure. much of the performance modeling and workload profiling that was pioneered at the science center is what eventually evolved into capacity planning we got cp67 (and...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2110
The ISS does soak up good deal of money and manpower, not to mention it provides the shuttles someplace to go...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2111
Not quite. The combination also has to be compatible with the people you work with and what they use. This is not a simple...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2112
toys The DEC's products are still being made. Just because they do not have the digital logo does not mean that the work is no longer getting bought and sold. You keep ignoring this...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2113
What DEC products are still being made? DEC has been sold stice over. HP owns Compaq who bought...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2114
Cripes, the "reading comprehension" jibe is nearly as ubiquitous as claiming Godwin's Law. NO! Part of my point was that DEC didn't know whether to be a HW...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2115
No, the problem is that Gordon Bell didn't know. The rest of the people in DEC knew. And...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2116
Okay, what was DEC at the time they were bought by Compaq? Yeah, I wasn't around whan...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2117
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...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2118
can Yes. Good point. Although....emoticon thinks a bit Wouldn't this fall out over time as the OS starts to mature? Remember...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2119
when i was doing page replacement algorithms as undergraduate in the 60s one of the principles was to...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2120
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:04:39 +0000, greymaus The CLI had been resembling UNIX since 1985. Can you be a little more specific? The addition of the PIPE: device, perhaps? The addition of aliases for...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2121
Yes. And they still do, no matter how lovey the shortcuts are. Yes. And a timesharing system that does its job well, give each and every...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2122
Oh yes... never expect them to think. By suggesting to them that they use one particular...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2123
In Win3.1 the first loaded .dll of a given filename was used by all later apps looking for that named .dll- even if it was the...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2124
Yup. At BigBank I had maxed-out KL systems with email, spreadsheet and document preperation software that people could access from any VTlove tty and we had...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2125
rpl The device handlers would need rewriting to allow for the differences in hardware interfaces. The loader (and compliers) would need...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2126
Three things here. Firstly, your customers are going to be seriously peeed off if the system is underpowered. But that is not as imporant as the fact that the customers...
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Remington RandGenerals MacArthur and Groves influence
After WW II, I understand Generals Douglas MacArthur and Leslie Groves joined the Debt Management of Remington Rand. R-R had bought out Univac and was introducing electronic computers. R-R...
Giving up my ambition to grow up to be a luser ATTN:Bill Petcher
Alas and alack I am accepting reality. Since my 18 year old and 15 year old disks have...
Funny Quote 2130
Annie Hmm, as opposed to the way in which those same lambie-poos buy today's snake-oil concerning the necessity of their economic brutalization, including the THEFT of public funds in...
Funny Quote 2131
Please define, very specifically, what you're talking about. Please give specific examples of "economic brutalization...
Funny Quote 2133
Annie Hoboken, in the 1990s, closed its library and opened a new, high-tech jail. Throughout Amerikkka, more and more is spent on jails and less and less on libraries. For this reason, and...
Funny Quote 2134
It depends. If you consider the New US Nazis to be nothing but flat gangsters, you are right. But i am afraid they are not flat gangsters. Same as with...
Funny Quote 2135
This gal "Annie" is a riot, and I have heard about her in comp.programming where her...
Funny Quote 2136
Pardon me, ma'am. I don;t understand why people find the WRITTEN word irritating. Just uh don't read it. Unless Annie is abusive in the sense of being consistently off topic without ability...
Funny Quote 2137
Or .... As much fun as it is to be snarky about someone else's atbreastude, especially when it's coming from someone...
Collins C8401 computer 2138
Jim Haynes Jim Haynes Do you have hard copies of old Datamation? jealous sigh. They're available at...
Collins C8401 computer 2139
Jim Haynes Do you have hard copies of old Datamation? jealous sigh. They're available at...
Collins C8401 computer 2140
I only worked on the 600 line computers, but my feeling is that some things were good and some things were pretty awful. The 635...
Collins C8401 computer 2141
Jay Maynard I used quite a bit of their stuff while I was in the Air Force. Even the 25 year old 651-F1 HF receivers dating from...
Big Bertha Thing blogs 2142
Big Bertha Thing balloon Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs 7K Web Page Astrophysics net ring access site Newsgroup Reviews including sci.optics The "Monstre" Balloon From the book The Ingoldsby...
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I'm going to tell you about a TOP RATED AUTOSURF program that takes 5 mins of your day and then instantly credits...
H200 vs. 1401 with S360
Anne & Lynn Wheeler I wonder if the H-200 was indeed "serious compebreastion", or was it IBM panicking because they were used to such high market share? That is, I understand they built 10,000 1401s...
H200 vs. 1401 with S360
I would agree on the superiority of the hardware and software, but what eventualy end this machine in was its 24-bit word length...
Penn Central RR computer system failure
In 1968 two once-powerful railroads, the New York Central and Pennsylvania, merged to become the Penn Central (along with the New Haven RR). Soon...
Penn Central RR computer system failure 2147
The computer systems were essentially efficient databases that kept track of car locations and waybill information, like who the shipper was, the car's weight, and...
Penn Central RR computer system failure 2148
I don't know any specifics about the computers, but in general everything that the NYC did one way, the PRR did differently. Everything involved merging incompatible systems. For example, NYC practice was to cut...
Penn Central RR computer system failure 2149
or any traffic reg. i was told that yellow light in boston means speed up. one of the first times i was driving in boston ... i stoped at an intersection just as the light...
Penn Central RR computer system failure 2150
Yup. It's so bad, I'm seriously trying to figure out how to take myself off the road. This is...
Penn Central RR computer system failure 2151
Mbuttachusetts' light managements are terrible. There was one traffic light that was red for ten minutes at a time for...
What's Wrong With This Joke was TandemSpeed Limit
In the group alt.folklore.computers: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:47:01 GMT, Philip Nasadowski In the group...
What's Wrong With This Joke was TandemSpeed Limit 2153
The cores probbably. What makes today's jetliner engines so efficient is the ever increasing bypbutt ratios. This doesn't apply to a turboshaft, of course. I'll see if I can dig it up...
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