FTAGH: ex VFR luggage

**** yeah.

They had proper clustering working. Cluster file systems, distributed
file locking, ACL's back in the early 90's.

Things Mr Torvalds is only just getting around to grafting into his
(reinvented) OS ....

Paul.

 

Heh, I can't even see what you've had to snip, as all of my posts are
being hyperspaced out of google groups.

So you need to count yourself lucky i'm able to post my missives at
all

Paul.

 

what, the homeopathy bothered you more than than the "oh go on then, I
need the money" freelance prostitution?

"Oyrx and Crake" is a fantastic book, though my favourite Atwood
remains "The Robber Bride".

 

much more than that - records management and versioning built into the
OS - MS thought about doing that only a few years ago and weren't
clever enough to manage it!

Fantastic OS.

(having said that, the security model in the clustered environment had
one huge flaw, which I mentioned whilst on the VMS Sysadmin
qualification course at DEC in Belfast, and was told: "we don't talk
about that").

when you say "reinvented" of course you mean "reverse-engineered
bodged together bloatware written by a million nerds in their bedrooms
with a million different versions".

 

whereas I found it a fairly shocking part of the book.

Well, OK, I wasn't actually "shocked"...maybe "mildly surprised" is
more accurate.

 

I think your definition of "lucky" and mine differ! )

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

We never marketed it properly. That was the problem with DEC when I was
there. Brilliant technology, but they couldn't sell a **** to a
troop-train.

HP launched a FUD campaign against it, and it died on its arse. A real
shame. I had one of the first desktop Alphas in the country in my lab. I
had a makefile that built a large-ish system. Took a couple of hours to
run on a high-end Philips Unix system.

20 minutes on the Alpha. :^)

 

The Handmaid's Tale. Great book.

 

Carly Fiorina

 

*double ding*

were you running VMS on it or OSF1?

 

It used EBCDIC.

 

You sure? You may be confusing it with MVS, or VM/CMS. Chalk and
cheese.

AFAIAA only IBM machines of that era used EDCDIC, BICBW.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

OSF1.

 

Oh sure, another good one.

The film version was crap, mind (surprise!).

 

heh - the OS that later became "The OS formally know as OSF1".

I was sysadmining a couple of OSF1 alphas and a couple of (IBM Level
90) PCs running SCO and a purpose-built ICL Unix box

The alphas were about a squintillion times quicker than the other Unix
boxes, so it seemed.

 

The one I used in 1988/9 had EBCDIC. I remember this because we had a
(Pascal) programming assignment which involved sorting things into
alphabetical order ...

 

that's my recollection as well.

 

It was an ICL.

 

and ICL, running VMS?

too many parraffin fumes, Michael.

 

Indeed. At that point ICL were largely just a box-maker of Fujitsu
mainframes, which were themselves IBM clones, and therefore running
MVS and/or VM/CMS.