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In article <Ed8OwoJPMilZ083yn@wizvax.wizvax.net>,
Ramsay D. Seielstad <mrhuey@wizvax.net> wrote:
>flightline@aol.com (Flightline) posted
>article <41fm52$n6n@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, 
>as a diatribe in alt.2600, and mumbled about:
>
>->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.

>  Mmmm, maybe you should consider re-taking Intro to Computers .005
>Flightline ... It is obvious you failed it at least once!  I believe
>IBM built multitasking / multiuser computers and wrote operating systems
>for them long before Billy-boy dropped out of college!
>
>  Granted, they may not have been 32 bit systems but at least they have
>developed an understanding of the word "pre-emptive" during that time.

   Actually, they WERE 32-bit systems -- at least since the System 360/67
multi-processor OSs with real 32-bit addresses, pre-emptive multi-tasking
(at least on their time-shared OSs), shared segments, demand paging,
virtual memory, multiple file types, etc.  Circa 1975.

   OTOH, keep in mind that IBM, like many large companies, goes to great
lengths to insure that developments like the PC are not burdened by any
knowledge learned in other product lines and other eras, such as mainframes.
It's been my experience that the PC world has to learn the lessons of
history the hard way....

Al Varney - just my opinion