Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Lawson English
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 19:42

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Bill Campbell (bill@camco2.celestial.com) wrote:
[snipt]
: invented thrashing and called it VM.  Burrough's MCP (Master Control
: Program) was vastly superior to the IBM OS/360.  My last main frame
: was a Burrough B-3800 which ran an average of 20 programs simultaneously
: with real pre-emptive multitasking in 200KB (yes that's kiloBYTES)
: total memory.

I remember the good ole MCP (I heard that Disney had to pay a fee to 
Burroughs to use the name in TRON).

I worked on B35/57/4700 minis as a computer operator in the USAF. Was the 
3800 part of this series, or was it a true mainframe?

: One of the major problems in the computer industry today is that most
: of the ``programmers'' grew up using Micros, think BASIC is a
: programming language, and have no experience with real Operating
: Systems.  This is not to say that they're stupid, just ignorant.

I hope that Copland will qualify as a true OS, but we will see...

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