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Originally Posted by
edfair
But I can remember the 386 and 486 during the timeframe under discussion.
I recall, now that we are talking about that time period, working on a project to use HP-UX RMB, which was needed to communicate with HP test gear via IEEE-488, and then dump summary data to a Progress database using their APIs.
As part of my architecture, I had to create a lot of shared memory IPCs and share memory using RMB/HP-UX. Back then I could talk directly with the core HP-UX RMB engineering team, and they told me I was the first person who actually used HP-UX shared memory with RMB. But, we actually got it working....
So, I cut my teeth completely on HP-UX and the evolved to Linux, working on a series of SUN OS projects along the way, and retiring just about everything else I ran across. That was 15 years ago.
Now, SCO is ...... well... never mind. Sun will belong to Oracle.... and Linux just keeps on getting stronger.
I agree with Tony. If I had the Perkin disks in front of me, I would analyze with Linux tools, without a doubt.