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[Dan Monjar]

Greg Brown wrote:
> Digital UNIX (vs. analog UNIX I suppose) on the Alpha chip was a 
> wonderful thing.
> 
> Dave Cutler is one of the 14 Distinguished Engineers at Microsoft.  He 
> worked for DEC and he contributed to VMS in many, many ways.  In a lot 
> of ways the multi-threading engine of NT has the same flaws as VMS 
> because of his cross-pollination (or so the theory goes).
> 

Got two of those as well... I don't throw anything away, just ask the 
wife ;-).  Sad story actually... Back in 98-99 my company was going to 
move from a VMS based Manufacturing system (MANMAN anyone?) to the Baan 
ERP system based on DEC Unix and a three-way cluster of Alpha 4100's. 
Dual-processor, GIGs 'O RAM, 0.5 TB of disk... pretty nice stuff.  A 
year into the project the parent company announced they were looking for 
a "strategic alliance" for us.  Momentum on the Baan project nose-dived. 
  We were finally taken over in 2001 and the ERP direction changed to 
AS/400.  I was left with a damn fine set of DNS and SMTP servers.

-- 
Dan Monjar