28 Aug
2018
28 Aug
'18
2:27 a.m.
"John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl(a)gmail.com> writes:
We (at the Labs outside of 11127) were definitely
forced to use the 3B
series, despite its unbelievable lack of documentation (and floating point,
for the 3B20s). Having to eat your own dog food doesn't make it palatable,
it just prevents you from doing something worthwhile, and dislike those who
prepare the menu. I'd be happy to apologize, if the 3Bs had proved their
worth.
[snip]
I was at 6200 Broad Street in Reynoldsburg in the late 1990s to early
2000s and while the group I was a part of was not forced to use the 3B
series for our product, we did get forced into using GIS [a.k.a. NCR]
systems after NCR was purchased. The OS running on it was some sort of
SVR4, pretty vanilla, if I recall correctly. I just remember it being
buggy. That version of the product was sold to a single domestic US
customer. All of the rest of the domestic customers waited for the
HP-UX port which happened after it was obvious no one wanted the NCR
product. The product that I was a part of was old even at the time,
having been ported to the VAX [SVR3], test ported to SunOS 4.x, Tandem
and the AT&T rebranded variation [SVR3, and SVR4], GIS [SVR4] and HP
[HP-UX, lots of versions]. I have heard since that the product is still
around and runs on Linux at this point.
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org