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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Brick) writes: > http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/20/usenix_07_opening_keynote/ the new, 40yr old theme, curtesy of the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech related post here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#64 Operating systems are old and busted a lot of technology evolved in that environment ... GML, precursor to SGML, HTML, XML, aka the markup stuff http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#sgml the internal network ... which was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly sometime mid-85 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet and as mentioned in this recent thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#47 Capacity and Relational Database http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#55 Capacity and Relational Database http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#56 Capacity and Relational Database relational/sql was first created in that environment http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr a lot of virtual memory and dispatch/scheduling http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock among other things, it provides a fantastic incubator for R&D and new technology ... which has been somewhat alluded to in parts of a recent thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#15 Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#20 Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#32 Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules in fact, after the corporation had canceled the failed Future System project http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#futuresys and realized that it had to throw resources back into the 370 product line ... POK was able to convince the corporation that the vm370 product had to be killed ... because they needed to transfer the all the (relatively few) people in the burlington mall development group to POK to provide support getting the mvs/xa development effort on schedule. Eventually, Endicott was able to salvage some of the product mission. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
