When would this have been? In 1978 Szurkowski and I went to the then-famed Atlantic City Computer Show (still in Atlantic-city, pre-casino, so it was cheap, and very much the place Springsteen wrote about) and stopped at Princeton and talked to someone who was doing such a port. Would that have been Tom?
I stopped at the now-closed Palo Alto office of IBM in 1991 or so. Some ex-Locus researchers told me that the 'move to native' for AIX was being slowed down a bit by the lack of people who knew how channels really worked ... they implied that many of them had retired! Does any of that comment ring true?
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