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Yeah, I was product manager for a number of subsequent 32-bit MV minicomputers and, later, a number of Unix-based systems including the big NUMA servers. It's b
by ghaff 2y ago
Yeah, I was product manager for a number of subsequent 32-bit MV minicomputers and, later, a number of Unix-based systems including the big NUMA servers. It's been a while since I read the book but I certainly don't recall anything that caused me to go "That can't be right."
No first-hand knowledge of all the internal politics that shook out in the creation of the MV/8000 (Eagle) but, again, never heard anyone say it was BS and I knew many folks both in Westboro and RTP quite well.
- klelatti 2y agoThanks for confirming that. I'd quite like to do a follow-up post on DG. Any really good sources that I could tap into?
- ghaff 2y agoMe probably? Might look at the Data General Alumni facebook page. https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fhp.html https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fhp.html I used to have a few links on pinboard but can't find them. You also might enjoy this: https://archive.org/details/year-in-dev/YearInDev https://archive.org/details/year-in-dev/YearInDev Mostly just some old docs but Wild Hare has served as something of an archive--though mostly pre-MV: https://www.wildharecomputers.com/ https://www.wildharecomputers.com/ Podcast: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minicomputers https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minic... I was very involved in this episode but my interview (along with Tom West's daughter) got left on the cutting room floor :-)