1 Feb
2017
1 Feb
'17
8:44 p.m.
From: "Steve Johnson"
The meetings went on for over a year, but _I NEVER MET
WITH THE SAME
PERSON TWICE!_ It seemed that the only thing the marketing group knew
how to do was reorganize the marketing group...
Shades of SI:Electric-Marketing (I _think_ that was its name) on the Symbolics
LISP Machine...
(For those who never had the joy of seeing this, it randomly drew a bunch of
boxes with people in them on the screen in a hierarchy, connected them, and
then started randomly moving the boxes around... I wonder if the source
still exists - or, better yet, a video of it running? Probably not, alas.)
Noel
1 Feb
1 Feb
8:55 p.m.
New subject: shared memory on Unix
Speaking of this, I remember at the 1980 usenix the discussion of how UCB
folks had done a one wire change to allow MFPU (move from previous user
space) to function in user mode, thus allowing a kind of weird not quite
shared memory IPC.
Good times, when you could rip open the machine and make it better ...
ron
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:44 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
From:
"Steve Johnson"
The meetings went on for over a year, but _I
NEVER MET WITH THE SAME
PERSON TWICE!_ It seemed that the only thing the marketing group knew
how to do was reorganize the marketing group...
Shades of SI:Electric-Marketing (I _think_ that was its name) on the
Symbolics
LISP Machine...
(For those who never had the joy of seeing this, it randomly drew a bunch
of
boxes with people in them on the screen in a hierarchy, connected them, and
then started randomly moving the boxes around... I wonder if the source
still exists - or, better yet, a video of it running? Probably not, alas.)
Noel
10:40 p.m.
New subject: shared memory on Unix
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 02:44:34PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Sun had reorgtool (orgtool) that had all the high up people down to
directors I think and you pushed a button and it reshuffled them.
It was a Xview app, anyone remember that toolkit (I sorta miss it).
--lm
From:
"Steve Johnson"
The meetings went on for over a year, but _I
NEVER MET WITH THE SAME
PERSON TWICE!_ It seemed that the only thing the marketing group knew
how to do was reorganize the marketing group...
Shades of SI:Electric-Marketing (I _think_ that was its name) on the Symbolics
LISP Machine...
(For those who never had the joy of seeing this, it randomly drew a bunch of
boxes with people in them on the screen in a hierarchy, connected them, and
then started randomly moving the boxes around... I wonder if the source
still exists - or, better yet, a video of it running? Probably not, alas.)
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