In <45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b90176a...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local>, on
01/05/2009
at 06:34 PM, "Thompson, Steve" <[email protected]> said:
>While working in Silicon Valley in the '90s, I had someone tell me that
>mainframes can't operate in a tightly coupled environment (and they
>weren't joking -- the poor guy who said this worked in Milpitas with a
>company that was trying to get 2 80386 CPUs to work together on the same
>motherboard). I looked at him and said that the S/370
S/370? Multiprocessing on mainframes goes back at least to the late
1950's, and was common even before the S/360 was announced. Bendix,
Burroughs, General Electric and UNIVAC come to mind, but there were no
doubt others. What were they smoking?
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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