QuantumLink

[Jim Brain]

Jeff Davis wrote:

>On Thu, July 28, 2005 5:19 pm, Ethan Dicks said:
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>>On 7/28/05, Cini, Richard <Richard.Cini at wachovia.com> wrote:
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>>>Is there a Stratus simulator out there? Maybe this is another project
>>>someone can work on for SIMH.
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>>As someone who was paid to move things _off_ of Stratus, I have one
>>word to that idea...
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>>Ewwww!
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>>-ethan
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>Hey, *my* stratus code (stock quote system) wasn't bad (at least when I left
>it).  PL/1 isn't *too* different than C, but way more wordy.  You can still
>get in there and fiddle with the bits, no matter what a variable was declared
>as.
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>Stratus VOS definitely isn't Unix, though.
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>Jeff
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Can you describe the system to me?  Did you issue the Q packets 
yourself, or did you operate at a higher level? 

As for the Stratus emulator idea, I would be the last to discourage 
someone to embark on this, but I'm mainly interested in bringing the 
client back.  Adding functionality via PL/1 is not my idea of a 
challenge.  More like misery....

Jim


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