1 Apr
2009
1 Apr
'09
9:14 p.m.
april fools?
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
GE and Honeywell's computer businesses were sold to Groupe Bull, where
they survive. They still make a very small
number of traditional
mainframes, but most of their customers now use systems under emulation on
Itanium processors. (Bull NovaScale)
Back in January of '94 I was involved with moving off of DPS-6 Minicomputer
hardware running GCOS-6 onto HP-9000's running GCOS-6 under an emulator
running on HP-UX v7.something. Prior to that I worked at a site running on
DPS-8's. A part of me likes the fact that GCOS-8 is still around, another
part is horrified at the level of vendor lock in. It was not a "user
friendly" environment.
Zane