> On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:59 PM, jim stephens via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On 8/30/2017 7:31 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: >>> On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Steve Jobs would have been at NeXT at that time, he didn’t come back to >>> Apple until ’97. >>> >>> Nearly 25 years later, my memory is pretty vague, however, around ’93 at >>> the FOSE trade show in Washington DC, IBM had a system running both OS/2 >>> and AIX. I want to say it was PPC, but it may have been x86. >> It was more than likely x86 and the AIX would have been AIX PS/2 (which I >> did a lot of work on at the time). >> >> The IBM Microkernel project (which I helped start) was the only way that >> OS/2 ran on PPC. OS/2 was an OS personality on top of the microkernel and >> all of its services. We also had a UNIX running as a personality too. My >> memory has faded too much at this point and but I also believe that there >> was MVM personality to allow DOS/Windows to run too. >> >> TTFN - Guy > Guy, I had a friend working on the OS2 project in Austin. He worked up to > about 18 months before early retirement age, and then had a mad scramble to > keep from getting laid off when they killed the project. He was lucky enough > to jump into the AIX group long enough to retire, but not all were that lucky. > > Bill Tims, in case you knew him. A closet USL Multician
No, I don’t recall him…but then again when the project there were 6 people who worked on it for about a year (I was one of the original 6 folks). Then we went away for Thanksgiving one year and when we came back it was labelled an “IBM Strategic Project” and about 3 months after being labelled “strategic" we had 350 people on the project (the IBM way ‘natch) and more being added every month. I spent most of my time after that running all over creation presenting what the project was and how all the pieces fit rather than doing what I was supposed to be doing (architecting the system and writing code). I still have all of the manuals. Somewhere I have a set of CDROMs with the source (Framemaker) to the docs and the source code to the IBM Microkernel and services. I don’t think I ever had the OS personalities other than potentially UNIX. TTFN - Guy
