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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
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Subject: Re: compilers and architecture, Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432?
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... trivia: after FS implodes, head of POK was convincing corporate to
kill the VM370 product, shutdown the development group and transfer all
the people to POK for (370/XA) MVS/XA ... possibly because of how bad it
made POK's favorite son operation system, MVS, look; ... which 16-CPU
SMP would have just made MVS look worse.

Endicott (370 mid-range) eventually manages to acquire the VM370 product
mission ... but has to recreate a development group from scratch.

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970