The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lurndal) writes: > Sure there are. Start with WindRiver. Then progress to MCP/AS, z/OS, > Exec/1100 and so forth. The whole world isn't microsoft, you know. the person at the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech that did the technology that was used in the internetal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet and part of the technology that was used by customers and in bitnet http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet ... aka the base technology was extremely layered with effectively something akin to gateway like function ... it not only deployed peer-to-peer networking ... but easily provided emulators that could also talk to HASP/JES2 ... lots of posts mentioning hasp/jes2 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hasp ... a recent x-over reference: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#69 Operating systems are old and busted so by the time of bitnet time-frame ... internal corporate politics was such that it was restricting shipping support for just the HASP/JES2 interfaces ... even tho the native peer-to-peer implementations were much more efficient (and still continued to be used internally for some time). in any case, the implementation was one of those service virtual machines (virtual appliances) ... more x-over http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#64 Operating systems are old and busted http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#66 Off Topic But Concept should be Known To All http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#67 Operating systems are old and busted http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#68 Operating systems are old and busted and included in the implementation was a very small & tightly coded multitasking monitor (for dispatch/scheduling). now many yrs later the person had opportunity to be involved in project that involved one of the major RTOS ... and he happened to be looking thru the C-source which seemed to be familiar. Eventually checking an old listing of the multitasking monitor ... it was apparent that they had done a nearly line-by-line translation of his 360 assembler code into C ... including preserving all the original comments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
