Encore (Marlboro MA, pioneer of parallel cpus) was amazing (or amazingly foolish) because....roughly 100 employees cranked out this product/HW with not just ONE os: They had 3 flavors, all running on the same large (VAX-sized) Multimax hardware with heavy SCSI disks each a few hundred MB. OS #1: BSD OS #2: sysV OS #3: UMAX, a mach hybrid if that helps I got hired into a 3 person sysadmin team, 2 weeks later I learned my lead cohort was moving to FL leaving me as the new top puppy. But I was surrounded by UNIX literate developers, thrilled to learn from them! But mostly only colleges bought these systems, so the downsizing started soon after. -doug On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 3:48 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
"John" == John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing."
John> Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the John> years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, John> SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an John> emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. John> Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), John> Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the John> years.
Heh, I forgot Umax, from Encore Computing. 16xNS32000 CPUs, 64Mb of RAM, $250k wheeled in, $25k when we wheeled it out three years later.
John> With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my John> work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the John> longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much John> killed it off now.
Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a Tim> success!
John> Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin* John> _______________________________________________ John> WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org John> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org John> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ John> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ John> Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/GC4JKD... _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/7QRWOL...