jim bohnsack wrote: > Colin--I was thinking about Amadeus last week anyway. I am still shaking > my head in disbelief that last week, 4 years ago, I was sitting there with > job offers from Amadeus, MIT, and Cornell. I have always said that in 20 > years I hope that I'm not sitting in a rocking chair in my nursing home > saying that I should have taken the Amadeus job.
Anne had done stint as chief architect on Amadeus long ago (still have hard copy of specification, 24apr87) ... however she backed going with x.25 ... contrary to a lot of SNA forces ... which got her replaced. However, Amadeus went with x.25 anyway. misc. past posts mentioning amadeus http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#49 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#50 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#76 Other oddball IBM System 360's ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#67 unix http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#47 What makes a mainframe a mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#6 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#7 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#27 Shipwrecks http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#23 Demo: Things in Hierarchies (w/o RM/SQL) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#29 Integer types for 128-bit addressing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#22 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
