From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl, and LSD
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:47:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <846cd708-4872-18fc-d222-8a3f123e46fe@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2O8op-T7rq+1s4kJp=W_ieuJk5eY7-7eSJ+hXd2ah2yNA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/15/2019 6:19 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
> As I understand it from my IBM friends that were there at the time was
> that IBM was concerned that the justice dept would go after them. The
> amount of business Amdahl bleed off was small compared to what IBM was
> making, so I suspect that it played into any business decisions.
Now I understand ;) I was so isolated from IBM in my early life, that I
didn't really get involved with them until the early 2000's. That was on
RS-6000's and AIX on the hardware side, and then IBM outsourcing on the
system administration side at one of my Fortune 100 customers.
They were still the elephant in the room, but they didn't seem as
predatory as I had heard.
art k.
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2019-11-15 21:54 dave
2019-11-15 22:26 ` krewat
2019-11-15 22:42 ` dave
2019-11-16 7:23 ` peter
2019-11-16 16:25 ` clemc
2019-11-17 5:14 ` dave
2019-11-18 16:42 ` clemc
2019-11-18 18:45 ` bakul
2019-11-18 19:19 ` clemc
2019-11-19 20:21 ` peter
2019-11-19 23:17 ` cym224
2019-11-21 19:48 ` dave
2019-11-15 23:19 ` clemc
2019-11-15 23:47 ` krewat [this message]
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2018-11-15 22:33 dave
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