On 13/06/13 15:18, David Peters Bluefinity wrote: > Hi > > As long as you don't tell anyone else, as it might show my age, I can add a > bit of background. I worked for Prime and was seconded to represent sales to > the project in Milton Keynes that delivered PI/open. In fact I was part of > the group that decided on the name and still have some of the original > marketing collateral in a box somewhere. As far as I can remember due to the > implementation Martin outlined the run time code could be moved between Unix > systems without recompiling. But I am sure Martin will be able to remember > and correct me if I am wrong. > That sounds a bit odd to me. Unless you're talking the components that were in BASIC, because Unix systems ran on a lot of different CPUs. But it could well have been "just a recompile".
> Assuming we are talking about a UK VAR in South London for the EXL 7330's etc > I was probably involved as well. Small world. > Jefferys Systems - I remember them when they were Wootton Jefferys - that'll date me too! But we also dealt directly with Prime. > And yes I then moved to VMark as they acquired Prime Information. It took > them years to assimilate PI in to Universe, but that's another story!! > Yes - I gather they tried to merge the Prime code with UniData, or some other similar PHB story ... Cheers, Wol > Regards > > David Peters > Sales Manager > BlueFinity International - an Mpower1 Group Company > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists > Sent: 12 June 2013 22:14 > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] History of Prime Information > > On 12/06/13 13:36, Martin Phillips wrote: >> It is interesting to note that just a few weeks before first release >> the marketing guys decided to change the platform on which it would be >> launched. If we had gone the assembler route, this would have imposed a huge >> delay. With C, it took just a few changes to recompile everything. > > When we got rid of our Prime (2750, iirc), we migrated to PI/Open. We > migrated our main system to three EXL7330s, which used a MIPS R3000 processor > - the same as in the Sony Playstation 1 I understand! > > But we also had an EXL300 (if I've got the designation right) which was an > Intel box (286 processor?) and also ran PI/Open. > > So that's two unique architectures right there ... :-) > > Cheers, > Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
