[email protected] (Ed Finnell) writes: > There was a 'dark comedy' film in the sixties, maybe Marcel Marceau where > the Inmates were running the town at the end of WWII-dodging the various > military factions, keeping the peace, and providing for the general welfare. > The comedy I suppose is they were doing a better job than the previous > administration.
It was cult film still playing non-stop down at central square (theater at the fork/junction of main & mass av) ... somewhat characterized as inmates being in charge of the institution. i was at the science center at tech sq (couple blocks down main st) and continued to work on 360/370 ... all during the Future System period ... which was going to completely replace 370 with something totally different ... and internal politics was killing/suspending 370 stuff. I would periodically ridicule the FS activity ... including drawing analogies with the cult film (inmates being in charge of the institution) ... not the most career enhancing comments. misc. past posts mentioning science center at 545 tech sq http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech the lack of 370 products during the FS period is credited with giving the clone processors market foothold. misc. past references to FS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys as per past references, when FS effort imploded ... there was mad rush to get products back into the 370 hardware&software pipelines. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
