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[email protected] writes: > I think Watson's leadership also contributed to many IBMers eventually > leaving the company and going to the competition to build peripherals > and the like. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#60 360 programs on a z/10 I didn't have any knowledge of that. As undergraduate ... and doing tty/ascii support for cp67 ... tried to get the 2702 to do something, it couldn't quite do ... helped led to motivation to build clone controller using Interdata/3 (four of us at the univ, later getting blamed for that clone controller business) ... mentioned in a couple recent threads: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#29 channels, was Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#53 DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing Later at SJR (before research moved up the hill to almaden, was in bldg. 28 on the main disk division plant site) ... i got involved doing various things in the disk division & got to play disk engineer. Among other things ... I would get requested to participate in conference calls with channel engineers in POK. I once asked why I was getting sucked into ... and was told that that had been previously been handled by senior engineers ... but most of them had been hired away. The atmosphere around silicon valley was startups offering lots of compensation for experienced people ... not necessarily just larger salaries ... but frequently also promises of large equity. Disk division silicon valley during the go-go years ... was quite a bit different from many other corporate locations (for instance, there were some of us that would periodically go by Tandem on friday afternoons, to see Jim, or the monthly baybunch user group meetings ... where there would also be people from Amdahl and maybe NAS). People could change employers several times w/o ever having to move. There was some of that in boston area ... but not nearly as much. There is the scenario where head of POK is considered a major contributer to VMS ... because of convincing corporate to kill off vm370, shutdown burlington mall development group and move everybody to POK (as necessary to making the mvs/xa ship schedule) ... some number of people left and went to work for DEC (on VMS) instead (Endicott eventually managed to save the vm370 product mission but had to reconstitute a group from scratch). In any case, some of the other discussions about Future Systems claim a major motivation for FS was the rise of the clone controllers (and then the distraction of FS gave clone processors their opening) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#futuresys in the early 80s ... there was a mini-version ... after some number of the 801/risc projects were being killed off, people were leaving (AMD, HP, etc). some old email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#email811006 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#email811006b http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#email811113 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#email811115 in this post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#65 801 (was Re: Reviving Multics there were references wondering why I wasn't part of the exodus ... especially since info about this scenario had got some dissemination http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.htmL#50 "Portable" data centers -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
