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| 2560.1 | BRANDING? | NEST::WHITE | | Tue Jun 29 1993 13:09 | 8 |
| How about:
What company's employees are dedicated to their customer's success
through innovation?
Did I get that brand message right yet?
--Catherine--*
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| 2560.2 | here are a few | TRCOA::TRCP90::ahmed | Politically Incorect Message | Tue Jun 29 1993 15:14 | 26 |
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Here are a few.
1. Who built the world's first interactive computer system?
Digital
2. What was the world's first commercial 32-bit OS?
VMS
3. What is the worlds first commercial 64-bit OS?
OSF/1
4. What was the first non-unix operating system to be
branded XPG/3 compliant?
VMS
5. What was the worlds first commercial PEER to PEER networking
protocol?
DEC/net
6. What Digital computer was in the APPOLO Space *craft*??
PDP-11
Nadeem
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| 2560.3 | another question | BSS::GROVER | The CIRCUIT_MAN | Tue Jun 29 1993 15:31 | 4 |
| Another;
WE know that (re:.2), BUT do they (customers)...?
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| 2560.4 | | ECADSR::SHERMAN | Steve ECADSR::Sherman DTN 223-3326 MLO5-2/26a | Tue Jun 29 1993 15:38 | 3 |
| Whose machine first ran Unix?
Steve
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| 2560.5 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Tue Jun 29 1993 15:41 | 7 |
| With questions like these, it's pretty simple to figure out most of
the answers, since they're all the same!
I'd suggest looking at the MR4SRV::DEC_HISTORY conference for more ideas,
but you want questions about Digital! :-)
Steve
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| 2560.6 | pdp 11/34? | ELWOOD::LANE | Good:Fast:Cheap: pick two | Tue Jun 29 1993 15:48 | 1 |
| Unix is written in C. What machine was C written on?
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| 2560.7 | Thanks..keep them coming | POBOX::RAHEJA | Dalip Raheja @CPO | Tue Jun 29 1993 16:30 | 7 |
| Folks,
Thanks for the responses so far. KEEP THEM COMING!! I am mostly
interested in current marketing type stuff as this a presentation to a
regional slaes meeting of a CMP.
Dalip
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| 2560.8 | | MU::PORTER | life is a cabernet, old chum.. | Tue Jun 29 1993 18:09 | 10 |
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>Unix is written in C. What machine was C written on?
> Title: pdp 11/34?
An 11/20, I think.
Unix was first written for a pdp-7.
C was invented for the rewrite for the "bigger" pdp-11/20.
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| 2560.9 | How many bits in an operating system? | TLE::TOKLAS::FELDMAN | Opportunities are our Future | Tue Jun 29 1993 19:12 | 12 |
| re: .2, Question 2
I'm not sure how you would define "32 bit OS," or whether there's a common
definition. Certainly OS/360 (and its siblings) ran in the sixties on a
machine with a natural word size of 32 bits, even though the address space
was smaller, and some versions of the hardware had 16 bit data paths. Did
VMS really precede the evolution of IBM systems to 32 bit address spaces?
Likewise, didn't some of the Cray or CDC machines get to 64 bits before
us?
Gary
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| 2560.10 | ICL there before us | WOTVAX::MEAKINS | Clive Meakins @OLO | Wed Jun 30 1993 06:14 | 6 |
| > 4. What was the first non-unix operating system to be
> branded XPG/3 compliant?
> VMS
I thought this was ICL's VME. ICL may not be players in your market,
but you might get caught on this.
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| 2560.11 | | VCSESU::JOHNSON | | Wed Jun 30 1993 09:09 | 4 |
| ...and while you're at it check out the Unix / C statements. Seems to me that
the folks a Univac (the first mainframe to run C was an 1106) and Interdata
(anybody remember them) - the first 32 bit mini to run C might disagree with
you. Both date back to '74.
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| 2560.12 | | MEMIT::CANSLER | | Wed Jun 30 1993 09:22 | 6 |
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ref. .11
Yes, I remember them, also, E.I. Dupont had several.
bc
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| 2560.13 | Back when "byte" was ambiguous... | ELWOOD::KAPLAN | Larry Kaplan, DTN: 237-6872 | Wed Jun 30 1993 09:22 | 14 |
| >
> Likewise, didn't some of the Cray or CDC machines get to 64 bits before
> us?
>
Well, the vintage late-60's through 70's CDC mainframes used a 60 bit
word (not 64) as they supported a 6-bit byte (10 bytes per word)
(In assembly language, you could only address the 60-bit words, even
though many instructions were only 15 bits long. This led to the
concept of "forcing uppers" (pad filling) which the programmer had to
do manually for any instruction which was branched to.)
L.
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| 2560.14 | Interdata?? | BROKE::SERRA | A technology is a terrible thing to waste | Thu Jul 01 1993 10:35 | 11 |
| re. 11
Interdata == Perkin/Elmer ??
are they still around???
steve
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| 2560.15 | | CVG::THOMPSON | Radical Centralist | Thu Jul 01 1993 11:01 | 11 |
| > Interdata == Perkin/Elmer ??
>
> are they still around???
Interdata became the Data System Division of Perkin-Elmer. A number of
years ago Perkin-Elmer split them off. I believe there was a buyout by
some Data Systems management people. They became Concurrent Computer.
They later merged with someone else but I think kept the CC name. After
that I lost track.
Alfred - formerly with Perkin-Elmer Data Systems
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| 2560.16 | | EOS::SHANNON | look behind you | Thu Jul 01 1993 11:37 | 6 |
| Is that the same Concurrent Computer located in Westford Mass?
They build realtime unix boxes for the defense industry now.
m
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| 2560.17 | | REGENT::LASKO | CPBU Desktop Hardcopy Systems | Thu Jul 01 1993 14:50 | 2 |
| The Concurrent in Westford used to be MASSCOMP and was bought by
Concurrent in, I think, New Jersey.
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| 2560.18 | CDC had 64 a long time ago | ESGWST::HALEY | become a wasp and hornet | Tue Jul 06 1993 16:14 | 7 |
| The CDC machines introduced in the early '80s were all 64 bit. Seems like
we could learn something from their efforts to port people from octal to
hex. They still sold 60 biters at least through '82. The preprocessors on
the CDC boxes (where all (most) interactive processing was done) were also
64 bits on the boxes brought out in the early '80s.
Matt
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