M$ adds on Linux Today

[Collins Richey]

On 10/16/05, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>  I was data processing manager for a
> beltway bandit (aka Navy Contractor) in the D.C. area for twelve
> years, and for most of that time we were using Burroughs Medium
> Systems, B2500->B3800, systems.  The MCP Operating System on
> these machines was far superior to the IBM OS/360, requiring only
> me and one other programmer to handle everything for a company
> with about 250 engineers.  An IBM shop would have required a far
> greater number of support people,

Yeah, MCP was a dream of an operating system - almost no maintenance -
it just worked. The only problem with the Burroughs medium system
boxes was the fact that they were decimal arithmetic only. If you
needed binary for anything (CRC, etc.) you had to write binary
simulation code!

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan