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> Unfortunately, it ended up at HP in the Itanium era, where it seems to have died off. My dad continues to maintain NonStop systems under the umbrella of DXC.
by adastra22 2y ago
> Unfortunately, it ended up at HP in the Itanium era, where it seems to have died off.
My dad continues to maintain NonStop systems under the umbrella of DXC. (Which is a spinoff of HP? Or something? Idk the details.) He worked at Tandem back in the day, and has stayed with it ever since. I think he'd love to retire, but he never ends up as part of the layoffs that get sweet severance packages, because he's literally irreplaceable.
The whole stack got moved to run on top of Linux, IIRC, with all these features being emulated. It still exists though, for the handful of customers that use it.
- Sylamore 2y agoKinda the other way around, the NonStop kernel can present a Guardian personality or an OSS (Open Systems Services) linux-like compatible personality. The OSS layer is basically running on top of the NSK/Guardian native layer but allows you to compile most linux software.
- adastra22 2y agoNo, I meant the other way around. I don’t know to what degree it ever got released, but he spent years getting it to work on “commodity” mainframe hardware running Linux, as HP wanted to get out of the business of maintaining special equipment and OS just for this customer.