From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 15:07:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19883 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA19864 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (ppp030-sm0.sirius.com [205.134.229.30]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20492 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20921; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:00:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199705152200.PAA20921@superior.mooseriver.com> Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD In-Reply-To: <19970515161439.54599@right.PCS> from Jonathan Lemon at "May 15, 97 04:14:39 pm" To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jgrosch@sirius.com, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Lemon said: >On May 05, 1997 at 01:18:16PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: >> showcase their technical mastery to loose money while the remainder of the >> organization does very well. Fujitsu's mainframe division is doing very >> well, eating Amdahl's lunch. > >Eating their lunch? Fujitsu owns 49% of Amdahl. All chip fabrication and >masking for Amdahl machines is done in FJ's labs. In fact, any Amdahl >machine after the 5995M is not even designed by Amdahl any more, it is >designed by FJ, and re-marketed by Amdahl. > >Amdahl doesn't really have a mainframe business any more, it's FJ's business. >They aren't even independent any more, having been partially swallowed up >by Sun, IIRC. Thank you. I stand corrected. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.1 jgrosch@sirius.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses