Thomas David Rivers <[email protected]> writes:
I started my graduate studies at Clemson in 1984... I watched to see if I could recognize anyone, but I suppose I was just before my time.
for other clemson topic drift ... there is lots of computer and IBM related historical information http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/ historical computer designs http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/hist.html IBM Future System (FS) - 1970s http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html IBM Stretch (7030) http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/stretch.html IBM Advanced Computing Systems 1961-1969 http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html and end of ACS-360 http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html from above: IBM management decided not to do it, for it would advance the computing capability too fast for the company to control the growth of the computer marketplace, thus reducing their profit potential. I then recommended that the ACS lab be closed, and it was. ... snip ... above also mentions ACS-360 features that eventually show up with ES/9000 in 1990 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
