On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:01:12 EDT, Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Neat History.... I worked at IBM 1983-8 and was a manager in the area >> that ran PCSHARE and VMSHARE and PCTOOLS. > >John: > >I think your memory is failing you a little. Your group ran IBMPC and >PCTOOLS (I thought the master for IBMVM was in Kingston, not your group >in Watson?). PCSHARE and VMSHARE were run by SHARE (out of McGill >University if memory serves) but were mirrored read-only inside IBM. Ah yes, I remember it well... <grin> > >A little background for those outside IBM. The IBMxxxx conferences were >discussion systems and the xxTOOLS systems were for code distribution. >Both used TOOLSRUN (available on the VM download page!) which was >originally written by Mike Cowlishaw and then maintained by Bob Cronin. >There were literally hundreds of difference TOOLSRUN based systems in >IBM and many were mirrored to hundreds of VM systems from the master. >IBMPC was the first and largest of these conferences and went live very >early, I think in 1982! > >Regards, Jim
