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
RIP Gene Amdahl
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Bob Juch
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RIP Gene Amdahl
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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BackInTex
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Re: RIP Gene Amdahl
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.
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.
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~~ Thomas Jefferson
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Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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Re: RIP Gene Amdahl
Gene headed Amdahl until 1979. I still write Assembler and debug from core dumps.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.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.