From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old mainframe I/O speed (was: core)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 10:02:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYKAmSchEzKuyRm7huvwt67QNp__x7mD7S9VUXmjVnN4Zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1806231550410.68981@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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A complete summary of slowdown devices and eunuch hardware would make a
fascinating document. Every vendor I know of at some point had the "wire
wrap" clock-x-2 upgrade, there is of course the infamous 486/487 story, and
Jon Hall used to love telling the story of the VAX backplane with the glue
in the board slots, which clever customers managed to damage and have
repaired with a non-glued-up backplane.
And on a bigger scale is the tragedy of, e.g., DECs use of its ownership of
Alpha firmware to hamstring its customer-competitors who tried to build
systems with Alpha.
"What are you doing to our Alpha customers? They're selling systems with
Alpha!"
"They're system competitors, we must crush them"
It would be neat to collect them all somewhere ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-23 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-15 15:25 [TUHS] core Noel Chiappa
2018-06-15 23:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-15 23:22 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-06-16 6:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-16 19:07 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-18 9:25 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-19 20:45 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-19 22:55 ` David Arnold
2018-06-20 5:04 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-20 5:41 ` Warner Losh
2018-06-20 8:10 ` [TUHS] Old mainframe I/O speed (was: core) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-20 16:33 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-21 3:05 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-21 14:00 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-21 14:49 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-21 20:39 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-22 5:32 ` Erik E. Fair
2018-06-22 13:32 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-23 6:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-23 17:02 ` ron minnich [this message]
2018-06-22 13:11 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-22 17:49 ` Erik E. Fair
[not found] <mailman.1.1529690481.3725.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-06-23 10:32 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-23 11:39 ` Clem cole
2018-06-24 7:50 ` Mutiny
2018-06-27 13:59 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-24 3:14 Norman Wilson
2018-06-24 13:03 ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-24 14:41 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-24 15:47 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-24 18:49 Norman Wilson
2018-06-24 18:49 Norman Wilson
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