Silicon Graphics files for Chap 11 and is sold to Rackable for $25 Million

[Zane H. Healy]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> GE and Honeywell's computer businesses were sold to Groupe Bull, where they 
> survive.  They still make a very small number of traditional mainframes, but 
> most of their customers now use systems under emulation on Itanium 
> processors.  (Bull NovaScale)

Back in January of '94 I was involved with moving off of DPS-6 Minicomputer
hardware running GCOS-6 onto HP-9000's running GCOS-6 under an emulator
running on HP-UX v7.something.  Prior to that I worked at a site running on
DPS-8's.  A part of me likes the fact that GCOS-8 is still around, another
part is horrified at the level of vendor lock in.  It was not a "user
friendly" environment.

Zane