Re: Borland marketing is killing our Delphi projects ... hope it'snot too late

"Jan Nordén [Borland]" <jan.norden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Kirk Halgren wrote:
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> >
> > The Space Shuttle uses newer hardware, of course, but the OS is IBM
> > 360, specifically because it has proven reliable.
>
> Hm, what do you mean? IBM S/360 was a hardware architecture. several
> OS:es ran on it, PCP, MFT and MVT. (If we forget the really early ones
> like TOS and DOS, I never saw those. Not PCP either actually).

I misremembered. It's not the OS, but the system architecture. See:

http://encyclopedia.codeboy.net/wikipedia/a/ap/ap_101.html

"The AP-101, being the top-of-the-line of the 4Pi range, shares its general
architecture with the System/360 mainframes.

A shuttle uses five AP-101s as "general-purpose computers" (GPCs). Four
operate in sync, for redundancy, while the fifth is a backup running
software written independently. The shuttle software is written in HAL/S."
--
Kirk Halgren


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