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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