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In article <41q9r5$n4g@camco.celestial.com>,
                    bill@camco2.celestial.com (Bill Campbell) wrote:

>Flightline (flightline@aol.com) wrote:
>: Why dont you guys get off off Microsofts case.  Lets not forget who
>: trained the IBM staff in 32bit OS coding.  Gee was it Microsoft.  If those
>: Beamers werent such assholes then Microsoft would've continued the
>: partnership.

>MS trained IBM on 32 bit OS coding?  That's the funniest thing I've
>seen in a long time.  First off, the only real Operating System that
>MS ever worked on was Xenix back around 1982 (when they got it working
>on a real 32-bit chip, the Motorola 68000).  Everything else MS had
>done is a BDPL (Brain-Damaged Program Loader).

The thought that Microsoft trained IBM on 32-bit coding is not
just funny, it is "wacky".  Only a true Microsoft "loonie" could
come up with such drivel.

>This is not meant to support IBM because they haven't been at the
>forefront of OS technology either.  The first main frame I used
>extensively was a Burrough B-5500 which used 48-bit single precision,
>was the first machine designed from the ground up to use a high level
>language (ALGOL), and used virtual memory at least 7 years before IBM
>invented thrashing and called it VM.

You forgot to mention that it also handled SMP with a breeze.


>                                    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 worked with a B-6800 that normally ran between 900-1000 programs
simultaneously with real pre-emptive multitasking and true symetric
multi processing to boot.

You did not mention the time period in which you worked with this
stuff, and neither will I, but I will state that Billy Boy Gates
was barely in grade school when this technology was being mastered.


I laugh when I see some of these folks talk about "new technology". <g>


>INTERNET:  bill@Celestial.COM   Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc.




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