Re: [cobalt-users] Raq VS. Xserve

[Bill Campbell <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:10:17AM -0400, baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
...
>Or, in other words, don't hold your breath waiting for a hardware vendor
>to help you with software.

When I was doing main frames (Burroughs Medium and Large Systems), the
general consensus was that IBM didn't write a line of code that wasn't
designed to sell more hardware.  When IBM finally figured out virtual
memory ten years after Burroughs and a French company invented it, they
proudly announced that they now had it, and programmers no longer had to
worry about how much memory their programs required.  The big IBM 360s
prior to this had 128 to 258K of RAM (that's K, not M).  To run the VM
versions of OS/360 required a minumum of 1Meg.  BTW:  IBM didn't invent
virtual memory, they invented thrashing.

Bill
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