[email protected] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: > Yes, IBM used to give schools deep discounts without requiring that > the systems be used only for classwork.
education/univ discounts and programs were significantly cut back with the legal actions and the unbundling announced 23jun1969. misc. posts mentioning unbundling http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle in 60s, lots of univ. got very attractive terms for 360/67 ... basically 360/65 with virtual memory hardware ... supposedly for running tss/360. tss/360 never quite made it and lots of univ. ran it as 360/65 with os/360. however, other univ. wrote their own virtual memory operating systems ... UofMICH wrote MTS, Stanford did orvyl (also wylbur later ported to os/360), and of course the science center did (virtual machine) cp67 ... misc. past posts mentioning science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech Michigan MTS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System Stanford ORVYL WYLBUR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORVYL_and_WYLBUR things started up again with formation of ACIS in the early 80s ... ACIS started out with $300m fund for univ. programs; project athena at mit got $25m (joint with dec that also provided $25m; kerberos, x-windows, etc), cmu got $50m (mach, camelot, andrew file system, etc), support for ucb, ucla ... lots of others. When they used up the $300m, acis got more. part of acis discussed here: https://calico.org/memberBrowse.php?action=article&id=396 turns out others were able to leverage a lot of the benefit ... for instance cmu mach was used by a lots of platforms as a unix work-alike. it was also used by jobs for NeXT ... and became basis of apple's operating system when he returned in the 90s. kerberos became major authentication mechanism for windows and various other platforms. athena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena kerberos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%28protocol%29 mach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28kernel%29 acis was going to do mainframe version of usb BSD ... but got redirected to port for pc/rt instead ... which became aos acis took ucla's locus (another unix work-alike) that supported distributed filesystem (including partial filesystem caching) and transparent process migration (in distributed environment) ... in some cases between machines with different architecture. this was released as aix/386 and aix/370 (for both ps2 and mainframe). ucla locus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCUS_%28operating_system%29 it also provided significant support for univ. bitnet (and earn in europe) using vm370 networking support similar to that used for the internal network. bitnet (this mailing list originated on bitnet) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET a lot of that dried up when the company was going into the red in the early 90s ... the company had been re-organized into 13 "baby blues" in preparation for being break up (the board then brought in new executive to resurrect the company) ... reference to 28Dec1992 "how ibm was left behind" and the reorg to 13 "baby blues" http://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html and as part of going into the red, re-org for pending breakup ... all the science centers were also shutdown 31jul1992. early to mid-80s, we were working with NSF on interconnect for the NSF supercomputer centers ... and lots of ACIS people kept trying to be involved. We were to get $20M from NSF ... then congress cuts the budget ... several other things happen ... and finally NSF releases an RFP. Internal politics prevents us from bidding ... the director of NSF tries to help by writting letter to the company copying the CEO ... but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that what we already had running was at least five years ahead of all RFP responses). reference to early nsfnet backbone http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/401444/grid-computing -- 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
