Leopard and Vista: Last Gasp of the Big OS?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/133276
from above:
Twenty years from now a new generation of computer users will look back
on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look
back at the cars of the late 1950s and early 60s. They had
. . . and for those of you who -- like me -- were made curious by Shane's
remark, here is the minix3 URL: http://www.minix3.org/
>From the site:
What hardware do I need to run MINIX 3?
You need an Intel 386 or higher with 4 MB of RAM, an IDE hard disk with100 MB
of free disk space, and an IDE
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 18:49 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> Twenty years from now a new generation of computer users will look back
> on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look
> back at the cars of the late 1950s and early 60s.
Why wait ???.
Last week I meandered i
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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#67 Operating systems are old and busted
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#68 Operating systems are old and busted
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason) writes:
> ... and thereby put the wait light out[1]. Having been brought up with
> DOS (the original DOS), and, generally, S/360 Model 30s, I was used to
>
In a message dated 6/22/2007 11:13:43 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>... and thereby put the wait light out[1]. Having been brought up with DOS
(the original DOS), and, generally, S/360 Model 30s, I was used to knowing
how busy the machine was by observing the flic
, which
historical S/360+ range removed the indicator?
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:56:04 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>> Plai
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:56:04 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>> Plainfield, IL
>
> ... IEFBR15 was based on the assumption that register 15 actually
>points to the BCR 15,15 instruction. Unless you PTF'ed the program to
>remove this dependancy by prefixing it with a BASR 15,0 instruction.
Just like I
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In a message dated 6/21/2007 8:14:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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>So the operators used to put DEBE
in and let it crank the meter while they played hearts, but management was
happy that they used 4-5 hours of machine time. I wouldn't do it and got
called on the
h the good ol days!
Bill
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that
ed this OS and I started salivating at the prospect of working on that
>
> project. The next thing I knew the project had been killed.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#64 Operating systems are old and busted
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#66 Off Topic But Concep
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On 21 Jun 2007 08:53:53 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>Speaking of old, busted systems and ones that were killed (like FS), does
>anybody know anything about the new operating system that Amdahl was trying
>to
>build? I had a phone interview with an Amdahl person in SEP 1987 who
In a message dated 6/21/2007 11:29:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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>I think you are referring to ASPEN? It was killed.
That's the one. I didn't remember its name until your post. The only
detail I heard was that Tom Simpson, the ex-IBMer who was the original mai
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Speaking of old, busted systems and ones that
> Speaking of old, busted systems and ones that were killed (like FS),
does
> anybody know anything about the new operating system that Amdahl was
> trying to build?
A number of people who contribute here worked on it. Maybe they will
chime in.
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>The use of the 2702 "prepare" command for terminal I/O would
effectively suspend "I/O" and the system "meter" would stop.
This is fascinating history, Lynn. I remember using the Prepare command
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