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07-24-2012

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Throw my Toys out of the Pram!

Hi Folks,

Today hasn't been the best one of my career in IT.

I've been a contractor for a major utility company for a number of years, on a number of seperate IT contracts mostly Unix. The company had 10 different flavours of unix and multiple different varsions of most of them.

At the time of my arrival they had;

Code:

SunOS (The old one)	Sun		SPARC
Solaris			Sun		SPARC
OSF1			DEC		ALPHA
Dynix (SVR3)		Fujitsu		RISC
DGUX (SVR4)		DG		M88000 & X86
HPUX			HP		PA RISC
SCO			SCO		X86
AIX			IBM		Power 5
OS/x			Pyramid	        RISC
DC/OSx	                Pyramid	        MISC

We experimented with some versions of Linux and implemented some versions, these went into production on IBM X235 and X245 Servers using Suse 7.3 and 8.3.

In the intervening years we have gone through E10K, F12K, F15K, we had P590, P690 and now P7XX (I no longer am on the AIX team), on the Solaris side we have M Series and T Series - I even got to play with a Sun AT7280 Series server.

Gradually the different flavours of Unix have gone, we are down to AIX, Solaris and Linux now. We have massively upgraded our kit to Power7 and M Series Sparc for grunt, we have V-MAX, DMX and Clariion disk back end we have one system with 118 CPU's, 1.7Tb of Memory and Several tens of Tb of disk but it's not as much fun as it used to be.

Almost all our applications have been virtualised, the recovery time for any problem is minimal - a recent Disaster Rehearsal showed that it onlt took minutes to recover a 3Tb database and implement it on a new server. But we seem to be bogged down in process, we generate thousands more reports, everything takes twice as long as expected and our principal customer still thinks that we provide a poor service because they are doing ten times as much as they were ten years ago.

And just a few minutes ago when I logged into my Oracle acount, they wanted to give me a free copy of Cloud Architecture for Dummies! That was the final straw for today - going home! Hope the data center catches fire!!!!!

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machid(1)						      General Commands Manual							 machid(1)

NAME

       machid: hp9000s200, hp9000s300, hp9000s400, hp9000s500, hp9000s700, hp9000s800, hp-mc680x0, hp-pa, pdp11, u370, u3b, u3b10, u3b2, u3b5, vax
       - provide truth value about processor type

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The following commands return a true value (exit code 0) if the a processor type matches the command name.  Otherwise a false  value  (exit
       code  nonzero)  is returned.  These commands are commonly used within makefiles and shell procedures to improve portability of applications
       (see make(1)).

				       +-----------+-------------------------++--------+--------------------------+
				       |Command    | True for		     ||Command | True for		  |
				       +-----------+-------------------------++--------+--------------------------+
				       |hp9000s200 | Series 200 	     ||pdp11   | PDP-11/45 or PDP-11/70   |
				       |hp9000s300 | Series 300 	     ||u3b     | 3B20 computer		  |
				       |hp9000s400 | Series 400 	     ||u3b2    | 3B2 computer		  |
				       |hp9000s500 | Series 500 	     ||u3b5    | 3B5 computer		  |
				       |hp9000s700 | Series 700 	     ||u3b10   | 3B10 computer		  |
				       |hp9000s800 | Series 800 or 700	     ||u370    | IBM System/370 computer  |
				       |hp-mc680x0 | Series 200, 300, or 400 ||vax     | VAX-11/750 or VAX-11/780 |
				       |hp-pa	   | Series 700 or 800	     ||        |			  |
				       +-----------+-------------------------++--------+--------------------------+
EXAMPLES

       Given a shell script that must behave differently when run on an HP 9000 Series 700 or 800 system, select the correct code  segment  to	be
       executed:

WARNINGS

       always  returns	true on both Series 800 and Series 700 systems.  Therefore, when using this command in scripts to determine hardware type,
       always use both and in the appropriate sequence to ensure correct results (see

       machid(1) will no longer provide support for future machines beyond the Series 800 and Series 700 systems.  Decisions should  be  based	on
       the hardware and software configuration information returned by getconf(1).

SEE ALSO

       getconf(1), make(1), sh(1), test(1), true(1).

																	 machid(1)