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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by nickpsecurity on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:42PM (#12317277)
Interesting. I didn't hear that angle before. So, you don't think cost of like $7 million for probably less performance wasn't going to end it? Far as rivals part, that same thing happened once HP had both NonStop and OpenVMS. One had to go. Whereas Unisys did it on purpose when it acquired CTOS, a distributed mainframe. They weren't taking any chances on that one haha.
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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by hga on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:17PM (#12317407)
It all depends on what you want to do with it. Crunch numbers? No way after some point. Prepare the Air Force's annual budget submission without information leaking? A real example of a perfect fit. Or provide the IT for MIT's EECS department? Good fit, until MIT-MULTICS was shut down as part of Honeywell killing Multics and the Cambridge lab which did work on it (I played a role in moving off that).
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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by nickpsecurity on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:57PM (#12317708)
Ok, well that makes sense.
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