[TUHS] (early parallel/concurrent computing) (was: unix "awesome list")

Kurt H Maier khm at sciops.net
Wed May 9 11:28:53 AEST 2018


On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 08:25:08PM -0400, Ron Natalie wrote:
> 
> Of course, this was about the time Mike Muuss and his band were becoming
> real firecrackers in the labs.    Mike shot his mouth off  that we could put
> UNIX on it (our answer to everything) and the lab management took us up on
> the offer.    Perhaps, with the exception of some of the MultibusII stuff,
> one of the nicest UNIX architectures around.
> 

A gentleman at ARL during my time there once mentioned they had some
"real nice parallel systems" until someone "ruined them with unix"... I
never did get details on which system he would have preferred pristine.

khm



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