Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 00:08:00 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Kenneth P. Stox" <stox@imagescape.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen? Message-ID: <3A9F46D0.B74159DA@softweyr.com> References: <XFMail.010301222517.stox@imagescape.com>
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"Kenneth P. Stox" wrote:
>
> On 02-Mar-01 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > remember that IBM owns whistle (until they finish
> > integrating it into different parts of IBM
> > and it dissappears) (burp)
> > and have some FreeBSD experience there.
>
> The problem is that 93.7% of IBM probably has no idea that IBM owns whistle.
Make that 99.99937% of IBM, it's a BIG company.
> I remember a discussion I had with an IBM sales rep working at the NCC
> conference in the early 1980's. He had no idea that IBM was selling systems
> that ran UNIX. At the time they were selling a 68K based lab system (
> the 9000 ?? )
The CS-9000, M68K + some weird limited operating system. It was developed
and sold by the IBM Instrumentation division, and had an IEEE-488 port.
Remember those?
> and I think were still selling the Series 1. I'm sure that things
> haven't changed much since.
Or System/36, or one of those blecherous little monstrosities.
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