[email protected] (Wayne Bickerdike) writes: > When I left IBM my manager asked what I was going to work on. I told > him, "micro computers, non-IBM stuff, XENIX, CP/M, Apple IIs, > Cromemco, Altos, Northstar". He said, "I don't ever see IBM getting > into those markets". A couple of years later the PC was launched and > IBM still didn't get it.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#5 IBM commitment to academia http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#7 IBM commitment to academia http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#8 DEC Demise (was IBM commitment to academia) for the fun of it, i periodically post ... recently in (closed linkedin) IBM'ers ... partially archived here: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#0 What is you opinion is the one defining IBM product? and as for ms/dos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS before ms/dos there was seattle computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products and before seattle computer there was cp/m http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M and before cp/m, kildall worked on cp/67-cms at npg school (gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine) http://web.archive.org/web/20071011100440/http://www.khet.net/gmc/docs/museum/en_cpmName.html npg reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School additional lineage is that some of the CTSS people went to the 5th flr and did Multics, others went to the science center on the 4th flr and did cp/67-cms (actually 360/67 wasn't ready yet so they did hardware modifications to 360/40 for virtual memory and did cp/40-cms ... which later morphs into cp/67-cms when 360/67 becomes available). folklore is that unix is outgrowth of Multics work (and the name a play on Multics). ctss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System multics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics cp/40-cms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-40 cp/67-cms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS Last year, Les sent me scan of his 82SEAS CP/40 talk, I OCR'ed it http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt -- 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
