David Kreuter wrote: > or the developers left Cambridge to go write DEC/VMS and unix ancestors.
the cp67 development group split off from the science center (on the 4th flr) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech and absorbed the boston programming center on the 3rd flr. a lot of the morph from cp67 to vm370 was done there ... eventually the group outgrew the 3rd flr space and moved out to the old SBC bldg in burlington mall (sbc had gone to cdc as part of some litigation settlement). there was constant pressure to kill vm370 and the next release was always the last. eventually pok got vm370 and burlington killed on the grounds that all the people had to be moved to pok to support the vmtool ... which was a 370-xa internal use only implementation ... needed for supporting mvs/xa development. one issue was that endicott had a rapidly expanding market for vm based on explosion in 148 (and later 4341) vm sales. endicott finally was able to save vm370 from being completely killed and allowed that some of the people might move to endicott ... rather than everybody needed to move to pok for supporting mvs/xa development. however, some number of people didn't want to leave the boston area. vms was just getting started and some number of people went to dec ... i remember some also went to prime computers. there was some joke that one of the major contributions to vms was by the head of pok lab.
