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

[joe lobocki]

april fools?

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
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>  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)
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> 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.
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> Zane
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