Jerry,

Whoa!  You bring back memories of work I did on a Univac 1107.  Some assembler,
some Fortran, some ALGOL 60!

Maybe the Burroughs-Univac merger succeeded to some degree because they didn't
come up with some stupidly clever name like Bunivac or Agilent or Verizon, the
latter two being real corporate nonsense names... Ben Myers

On Thu, 02 May 2002 16:11:48 GMT, [log in to unmask] (Jerry Leslie)
wrote:

>Dave Gudewicz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>: Couldn't help but think after reading Ben's note:
>:
>: If we learn nothing from history, we are doomed to repeat it.  Or something
>: like that.
>:
>: Can anyone here enlighten us with a merger such as this that DID work?  And
>: to reiterate the obvious, the Compaq assimilation of DEC did NOT work.
>:
>: Dave...
>:
>Apparently the Burroughs/Univac merger worked, for some value of "worked",
>since the company is still in business, and still selling products based
>on Burroughs and Univac; e.g.:
>
>   http://news.com.com/2100-1001-887494.html
>   Unisys to expand mainframe line - Tech News - CNET.com
>
>   Unisys to expand mainframe line
>   By Stephen Shankland
>   Staff Writer, CNET News.com
>   April 19, 2002, 3:45 PM PT
>
>   Unisys, one of the few companies that continues to sell mainframe
>   computers in competition with market-leading IBM, will announce an
>   expansion of its high-end machines Monday.
>
>   The company will announce faster machines in its ClearPath Plus line,
>   which shares much of the same hardware as its ES7000 "cellular
>   multiprocessing" Windows servers.
>
>   Cellular multiprocessing lets Blue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys run its
>   older mainframe operating systems and Windows 2000 on the same system.
>   Through partitioning features, which let a system be divided into
>   several independent servers, different operating systems can coexist
>   in different sections of the hardware...."
>
>Their OS2200 is supposedly based on Univac's EXEC 8.
>
>That brings up several off-topic questions:
>
>  o is the assembler still SLEUTH ?
>
>     http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/instructions.html
>     UNIVAC 1100 Series Instruction Set
>
>  o is there a USENET newsgroup for OS2200 ?
>
>I'd be willing to 'LMJ X11,Unisys_gig', since VMS work has dried up. :-)
>
>--Jerry Leslie   [log in to unmask]  (my opinions are strictly my own)
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