Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in2.uu.net!uucp2.uu.net!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Subject: Re: Accounts of the death of the KL-10 (aka Jupiter, 2080)? In-Reply-To: ed@pigdog.niehs.nih.gov's message of 17 Apr 1997 16:06:26 -0400 Message-ID: Sender: bzs@world.std.com Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <5i1ahl$c6i@news.sei.cmu.edu> <5i9k80$jh5@shell3.ba.best.com> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 04:12:00 GMT Lines: 24 Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:2766 I was on the fast path for a Jupiter (Boston U), having taken delivery of a brand new 2060 in June 1983, DEC came over that summer to pitch the Jupiter to us and how great it was going to be. I think I remember speaking to Roseanne Giordano the day after announcement, on the phone, it was more of a lost opportunity for DEC than us since BU spent most of its money on IBM mainframes, the academic side went on in other directions, Sun etc. Wasn't there some story that the senior CPU architecture designer for Jupiter got deathly ill a coupla months before deadline, hepatitis or something like that, and a more junior fellow took his place. The latter had all these different ideas he felt had not been given sufficient shrift by his now out of the way superior, made a lot of changes to the design, and it just didn't work so there was your "performance problem". I dunno, maybe it was an apocryphal story. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | http://www.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD