... and for those interested another link that I just found on the same subject, by a woman and another Tony
http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/usenet/smp Notice how the spin lock was invented! > > Hello, > > It is interesting to see that this was all done already in > the past, see: > > http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/paper-smp.txt > > Also see this interwiew of Bill Gates and notice how he says > that the PDP10 was a fantastic machine: > > http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm#tc4 > > That was when he was allowed to use a PDP-10 at nights, > thus when he was about 12. Further research show that this early > TOPS-10 "timesharing" single processor OS did work > internally like the QL's QDOS. However UNIX was free within > universities, hence was successfull, and Digital Equipment > favored its VAX line of OSes, based on similar algorithms > than UNIX. That lead them to the end within about 20 years. > In the meantime Microsoft had grown enough with a ugly but > _working_ monotasking system (MS-DOS it was named) and could > hire a technical leader at DEC. Bill hired the chief > designer of the VAX products which lead to NT, 2000, XP, > Vista etc.. instead of those great developers of that > fantastic Tops-10. The right technology was killed a second > time. Sinclair Research and Tony Tebby came about 15 years > after DEC and did reinvent the wheel but was not successfull > either. As I am optimistic I think that the better > technology wins in the end, but it must come at the right > time (the story of gas vs electric engines in cars). So it > must be reinvented many times. IMHO it is definitely not Linux... > > Happy new year > Arnould _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
