[email protected] (Bob Shannon) writes: > But IIRC, the primary designer was Jack Gelb with assistance from Ed Duray.
... from long ago and far away, kick-off DSAB ... (one of your referenced names with email address at STLVM23 was listed in cc list): Date: 1 July 1985, 13:28:50 EDT From: <redacted> To: <redacted> cc: <redacted> Subject: DSAB management meeting minutes The schedule stated that the Architecture document will be sent for approval on July 1, 1986 with interim checkpoints. Board meetings are scheduled for this year; the weeks of July 22, August 26, October 21, November 18, December 16. Both <redacted> and <redacted> stated that a July 1986 date for DSA is acceptable from a VM/XA Release 3 and Jupiter view points, and their products could take appropriate steps to conform to the DSA. ... snip ... STL (since renamed SVL) had started moving vm/4341 systems into conferencing rooms and supply rooms on every floor of the different "towers" ... effectively form of departmental computing (giving rise to the ever increasing number of STLVM* networking nodes on the internal network). screenshot of vm logo screen ... part of special project I did for stl datacenter & ims development group http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/vmhyper.jpg some STL/SVL views: http://www.ajnordley.com/IBM/Air/SVL/ the above article mentions the interior couryard between the towers and above "one of the largest computer machine rooms west of the Mississippi". it also mentions flooding of roads ... but when STL first open, the computer room was also getting flooded. On the other hand ... I had done a stint working at BCS ... and I thot the renton datacenter was much larger. trivia question: what was going to be the original name for STL??? ... it was changed at the last minute, a week before it was due to open -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
