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From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Subject: [TUHS] (early parallel/concurrent computing) (was: unix "awesome list")
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 18:28:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180509012853.GA81424@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016301d3e72c$2fae3680$8f0aa380$@ronnatalie.com>

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 08:25:08PM -0400, Ron Natalie wrote:
> 
> Of course, this was about the time Mike Muuss and his band were becoming
> real firecrackers in the labs.    Mike shot his mouth off  that we could put
> UNIX on it (our answer to everything) and the lab management took us up on
> the offer.    Perhaps, with the exception of some of the MultibusII stuff,
> one of the nicest UNIX architectures around.
> 

A gentleman at ARL during my time there once mentioned they had some
"real nice parallel systems" until someone "ruined them with unix"... I
never did get details on which system he would have preferred pristine.

khm


  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-09  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-07 18:22 [TUHS] unix "awesome list" A. P. Garcia
2018-05-07 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-07 21:53   ` Steve Johnson
2018-05-08 12:24     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-08 13:51       ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 14:53         ` Clem Cole
2018-05-08 15:23           ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-08 15:31           ` Steve Johnson
2018-05-08 16:32             ` Clem Cole
2018-05-08 17:33             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-08 18:40             ` William Cheswick
2018-05-08 21:25             ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 23:06             ` [TUHS] (early parallel/concurrent computing) (was: unix "awesome list") Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-09  0:25               ` Ron Natalie
2018-05-09  1:28                 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2018-05-08 21:15           ` [TUHS] unix "awesome list" Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 16:31       ` Michael Parson
2018-05-08 17:20         ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-08 17:49           ` Michael Parson
2018-05-08 20:48           ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-08 17:53         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-07 21:54   ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08  8:14     ` Mutiny
2018-05-07 22:34 ` Andy Kosela

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