From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] shared memory on Unix
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 13:40:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201214011.GG880@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170201194434.C5DE118C0E8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 02:44:34PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: "Steve Johnson"
>
> > The meetings went on for over a year, but _I NEVER MET WITH THE SAME
> > PERSON TWICE!_ It seemed that the only thing the marketing group knew
> > how to do was reorganize the marketing group...
>
> Shades of SI:Electric-Marketing (I _think_ that was its name) on the Symbolics
> LISP Machine...
>
> (For those who never had the joy of seeing this, it randomly drew a bunch of
> boxes with people in them on the screen in a hierarchy, connected them, and
> then started randomly moving the boxes around... I wonder if the source
> still exists - or, better yet, a video of it running? Probably not, alas.)
Sun had reorgtool (orgtool) that had all the high up people down to
directors I think and you pushed a button and it reshuffled them.
It was a Xview app, anyone remember that toolkit (I sorta miss it).
--lm
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-01 19:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-01 19:55 ` ron minnich
2017-02-01 21:40 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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2017-02-01 14:18 Paul Ruizendaal
2017-02-01 16:21 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-02-01 17:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 17:24 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-01 17:39 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-02-01 18:04 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 18:01 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 18:07 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-02-01 18:15 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-01 18:32 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-02-01 18:35 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-01 18:33 ` arnold
2017-02-01 19:11 ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-01 19:24 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-02-01 19:30 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-02 0:25 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-01 23:11 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-02-02 1:10 ` Clem Cole
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