Re: RPG on HP MPE systems

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:13 PM Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 5/22/2020 3:51 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
>
>
> And now that I think of it, large chunks of my career over the years
> have been spent on obsolete technologies.  They just weren't obsolete at
> the time.  OS/2 and EGL come immediately to mind.
>
> Thanks, IBM.


Yes, IBM is to be thanked. OS/2 was lovely, and Windows NT couldn't have
been written if they hadn't tried OS/2 first.

OS/2 had a perfect TCP/IP stack in 1994. Windows NT didn't have a truly
functional TCP/IP stack until Windows 2000.

IBM's business model has always been based on "at the forefront with what
they have to have now and will pay the big bux for".

That's why IBM are to this day *one of the greatest, if not THE greatest,
commercial R&D firms on the planet*.

If you want to do something forward-looking from IBM , *get involved with
IBM Quantum Experience*.

My practice is legacy system support. My heart is in Quantum Computing.

Jack Woehr
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