On Wednesday 16 February 2005 03:52, Peter Pankonin wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 04:52 pm, Trever Miller wrote: > > Man, I must be feeling my age all of a sudden. Doesn't anybody > > here remember the AT&T / Berkeley SysV/BSD lawsuit, or even > > further back ((vaguely as a kid) the moon landings on tv? > > Well, I remember those days. When I was in University (U of L) we were > programming on a DEC System 20 machine named Prairie Oyster. We used to go > into the terminal room and play Dungeons all weekend long.
I took my first job after graduating from U of A in 1989 working at U of L - they had just rolled the DEC-20's out and my job was the VMS systems programmer taking care of all the brand new VAXen, standalone and clusters. Anybody remember that DEC invented clusters in 1984 with support for up to 96 nodes? None of this wimpy 2 node failover cluster-wanna-be stuff M$ used to bang their drum about... _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
