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RIP Gene Amdahl
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 5:01 pm
by Bob Juch
My old boss:
Quoting from The New York Times,
"Gene Amdahl, a trailblazer in the design of IBM’s mainframe computers, which became the central nervous system for businesses large and small throughout the world, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 92."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/techn ... .html?_r=2
Re: RIP Gene Amdahl
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:33 am
by BackInTex
When I started at Texas A&M in 1977, the campus mainframe was an Amdahl. Not an IBM 360 series. Had Gene already left IBM and started his own company by then?
I kind of miss working the ole 360 stuff. Liked doing assembler level coding, debugging core dumps, etc. Likely because I was about the only one where I worked (Mobil) that could do it. I was in the business applications group. I'm sure there were some folks in the technical areas that could do it as well, but not our group.
Re: RIP Gene Amdahl
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 1:58 pm
by Bob Juch
BackInTex wrote:When I started at Texas A&M in 1977, the campus mainframe was an Amdahl. Not an IBM 360 series. Had Gene already left IBM and started his own company by then?
I kind of miss working the ole 360 stuff. Liked doing assembler level coding, debugging core dumps, etc. Likely because I was about the only one where I worked (Mobil) that could do it. I was in the business applications group. I'm sure there were some folks in the technical areas that could do it as well, but not our group.
Gene headed Amdahl until 1979. I still write Assembler and debug from core dumps.