On: The Soul of an Old Machine

[ghaff]

Yeah, I was product manager for a number of subsequent 32-bit MV minicomputers and, later, a number of Unix-based systems including the big NUMA servers. It's been a while since I read the book but I certainly don't recall anything that caused me to go "That can't be right."

No first-hand knowledge of all the internal politics that shook out in the creation of the MV/8000 (Eagle) but, again, never heard anyone say it was BS and I knew many folks both in Westboro and RTP quite well.

[klelatti → ghaff]

Thanks for confirming that.

I'd quite like to do a follow-up post on DG. Any really good sources that I could tap into?

[ghaff → klelatti]

Me probably?

Might look at the Data General Alumni facebook page.

https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fhp.html

I used to have a few links on pinboard but can't find them.

You also might enjoy this: https://archive.org/details/year-in-dev/YearInDev

Mostly just some old docs but Wild Hare has served as something of an archive--though mostly pre-MV: https://www.wildharecomputers.com/

Podcast: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minic...

I was very involved in this episode but my interview (along with Tom West's daughter) got left on the cutting room floor :-)

[klelatti → ghaff]

Thank you! That's really helpful. I see I wasn't first with new -> old.

[ghaff → klelatti]

When I was product managing DG's big NUMA servers, The Soul of a NUMA Machine also got thrown around a bit :-)

Contact info in my profile.

[klelatti → ghaff]

That's very good. Thanks so much again.