[Info-vax] CPU Refresher for Programmers

[MICHAEL W FARRELL]

I once had to support a system that ran on one of those machines.  It had 
core memory.

I guess the fans did this, but once the rails on the machine in which the 
motherboard rested horizontally, came loose, fell out and the motherboard 
fell out of the machine while it was running because of all the vibration.

That thing was down more than it was up.

Mike Farrell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnny Billquist via Info-vax" <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
To: <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
Cc: "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Info-vax] CPU Refresher for Programmers


> On 2016-01-19 00:45, Chris Scheers wrote:
>> IanD wrote:
>>> I think the OS was Aviion? Didn't that morph into the OS behind EMC's
>>> storage frames?
>>
>> The main MV OSes were AOS/VS and AOS/VS II.
>
> Ah, yes! Thanks. AOS - Advanced Operating System. Fancy name for a pretty 
> ugly OS.
>
>> IIRC, Aviion was the name originally used for their RISC hardware
>> (Motorola 88000?).  The storage arrays were mostly under the Clariion
>> name.  These storage arrays were EMC's main interest, but they also got
>> (and killed) the computer parts.
>
> Yes, Aviion was Motorola 88000. Later they shifted to Intel hardware.
> And also thanks for Clariion. That was the name of the storage stuff that 
> EMC wanted. Wow, how much one forgets...
>
>>> When I worked in the electronic field (basic stuff), the future was
>>> designer chips. That whole line of stuff never went anywhere and the
>>> rise of the commodity chips came to power. Now power itself is a major
>>> focus, since the true cost of energy is being realised
>>
>> FWIW: The DG MV hardware with the ring capabilities was the basis for
>> the book "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.
>
> Yes. The 32-bit Eclipse... An ugly machine...
>
> Johnny
>
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