In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Paul Rubin wrote: > >> Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>I worked for an Airline computer reservation system (CRS) for almost a >>>decade. There is nothing about today's laptops that remotely comes close >>>to the power of those CRS systems, even the old ones. CRS systems are >>>optimized for extremely high performance I/O and use an operating system >>>(TPF) specifically designed for high-performance transaction processing. >> >> >> Yeah, I've been interested for a while in learning a little bit about >> how TPF worked. Does Gray's book that you mention say much about it? > >I honestly do not recall. TPF/PAARS is an odd critter unto itself >that may not be covered by much of anything other than IBM docs.
I've seen it covered in some textbook, possibly something by Tanenbaum. I imagine it's in the ACM literature and the IBM Systems Journal. If we move this thread to alt.folklore.computers we'll get lots of good info. -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
