21 Dec
2007
21 Dec
'07
9:40 p.m.
On Thursday 20 December 2007 11:53, Scott Quinn wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
That works too. I think this was mostly S/360 and maybe some S'/370 stuff,
there might've been some System/38 in there, I think.
And in reading about the various IBM boxes, only
one word comes to
mind: "Baroque"!
I wouldn't say that- although I admit that on first looking at even the
RS/6000 (and later hearing about the AS/400 and S/3XX) was "weird". IBMs are just a different mindset than DECs.
*Very* different.
A way of looking at it is that IBM moved
"downmarket" and DEC
moved "upmarket" (similar thing with most of the computers we see: they
started out at the lower end, and then later on the manufacturers decided to
put together a big machine for certain customers (PDP-10, SGI PowerSeries,
Sun E10k, VAX 9000 ...)
IBM also had a paradigm early, and those tend to stick.
How do you mean here?
I really wish more of the details of the history of this stuff had stuck with
me, but I occasoinally had to pay attention to other things at the time.
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