Re: VM history question

2009-07-13 Thread Jeff Savit
. A LISP interpreter written entirely in BAL, with self-modifying code and almost out of base register addressibility... that was quite an interesting piece of code. regards, Jeff Savit

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Jeff Savit
Gary M. Dennis wrote: 1. How does OpenSolaris zfs utilize the storage tier on System z? Are the disks allocated to zfs pool(s) simply reserved CMS formatted disks? Exactly that: minidisks used by OpenSolaris on z port (sirius for short) are CMS-formatted and RESERVE-d minidisks. That way

Re: File System - If you had everything, where would you put it?

2009-04-03 Thread Jeff Savit
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:32:10 -0500, Gary M. Dennis gary.den...@mantissa.c om wrote: As it is written. Guests pull from the server on read requests and ser vers pull from the guests on write requests. We seem to be missing an interrupt sequence don't we? Gary Okay, got it. Ultra-traditional

Re: For the old-timers out there

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Savit
or TOS, let alone early DOS, OS/360, or CP. Doesn't sound like 1130 either. IBM 7090 or 704x? STRETCH? That was rare enough, and by this time, who knows what it was like. Maybe CDC2600? A little teaser for greying neurons... cheers, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems

Re: OT: S/360 hardware related

2006-11-08 Thread Jeff Savit
Well, that presses all my nostalgia buttons at once! The 360/22 was the first computer I programmed or operated. We ran HASP RJE on it, and then (once we got to a full 64K of core memory) ran DOS/360 release 26.2 - though at one point I did an OS/360 PCP install. You could watch it go CPU-busy