Hi As long as you don't tell anyone else, as it might show my age, I can add a bit of background. I worked for Prime and was seconded to represent sales to the project in Milton Keynes that delivered PI/open. In fact I was part of the group that decided on the name and still have some of the original marketing collateral in a box somewhere. As far as I can remember due to the implementation Martin outlined the run time code could be moved between Unix systems without recompiling. But I am sure Martin will be able to remember and correct me if I am wrong.
Assuming we are talking about a UK VAR in South London for the EXL 7330's etc I was probably involved as well. Small world. And yes I then moved to VMark as they acquired Prime Information. It took them years to assimilate PI in to Universe, but that's another story!! Regards David Peters Sales Manager BlueFinity International - an Mpower1 Group Company -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: 12 June 2013 22:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] History of Prime Information On 12/06/13 13:36, Martin Phillips wrote: > It is interesting to note that just a few weeks before first release > the marketing guys decided to change the platform on which it would be > launched. If we had gone the assembler route, this would have imposed a huge > delay. With C, it took just a few changes to recompile everything. When we got rid of our Prime (2750, iirc), we migrated to PI/Open. We migrated our main system to three EXL7330s, which used a MIPS R3000 processor - the same as in the Sony Playstation 1 I understand! But we also had an EXL300 (if I've got the designation right) which was an Intel box (286 processor?) and also ran PI/Open. So that's two unique architectures right there ... :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
