On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com>wrote:
> 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. And...he starts off at least responding to the current topic (even though THAT has wandered far afield), then, as usual, it's off to fantasy-land. Seriously, Lynn: WTF? -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
