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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: portable code
Message-ID: <2856@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 01:56:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 01:56:27 1986
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From: eugene@nike.uucp (Eugene Miya N.)
>I spoke with a person reasonably high in IBM.  He tell me the clammer is
>not for Unix on VM anymore.  Apparently people are asking for VMS on VM.
>Interesting problem for IBM.

Hmm, a well set-up 3090 could probably emulate an 8600 faster than an
8600 could...nah, c'mon...hmmm...a little microcode...then there's those
channels...nah..hmmm

I was under the impression that IBM got into the whole UNIX game mainly
because of the $1B NSA contract they had to withdraw themselves from as
bidders because it required UNIX.

I will say that I mentioned that to an IBM "higher up" and his answer
was (thoughtfully, brow knitted, quietly and slowly) "no, I don't
think that's right, federal systems doesn't recommend UNIX to NSA..."

Made me turn around my attitudes a little (but I still think that's
right, about the lost NSA contract, $1B ain't much to them, but it
probably seemed like a disturbing trend.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University