[email protected] ([email protected]) writes: > My first year-end retirement account statement -- for 1971! -- listed > my projected retirement date as the incredibly distant, unimaginable, > science-fiction-like date of February 1, 2012. So back then at least > TIAA-CREF understood time windows spanning entire careers and beyond.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#90 Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#0 Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#2 Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#13 Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#15 Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future I think 71 (72?) was when Amdahl gave talk in large (full) auditorium at MIT. A student in the audience asked him how did he convince the VC people to invest in his 360 clone company. His reply was that IBM customers had already spent enormous amount on 360 applications ... and even if IBM were to completely walk away from 360, that software base would be enough to keep him in business through the end of the century. Of course Future System was starting up ... which was planned to completely replace 360 (and be radically different from 360). I've since been told that he wasn't aware of FS (even though his reference "walking away from 360" might be considered veiled reference to FS). However, the scarcity of 360/370 products during the period is credited with giving the clone processors a market foothold (FS internal politics were shutting down &/or suspending 370 efforts). misc. past posts mentioning FS (along with some URLs for other online FS sources): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys as i've mentioned in the past, during that period I continued to work on 360/370 stuff and periodically ridicule the FS activity. then with the failure of FS, there was mad rush to get products back into the 370 hardware&software pipeline. for other drift, recent posts about Amdahl and IBM ACS-360 effort http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#46 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#47 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? more detail here: http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.htm -- 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
