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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:49:14 -1000 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 40 Message-ID: <871q16tied.fsf@localhost> References: <5mqdnZuGq4lgwm_7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1r0e6u9.1tubjrt1kapeluN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <87msjvprm3.fsf@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:49:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5881e439a9cbfb9a2b608b1bc8d1e218"; logging-data="345749"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199WinCrua8O7P3GjbEfd7OURHxAfQcZ/Q=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S7l+O0IzLO85rfrxP+fOcj3MlgU= sha1:LBQ3aHhzMCqj4283eCaNi9H8R4U= Bytes: 3387 Lynn Wheeler writes: > In the early 90s, IBM was going through its troubles and selling off > and/or offloading lots of stuff (real estate, divisions, etc), including > lots of VLSI tools to industry VLSI tools vendor. However, the standard > VLSI shop was SUN machines and so everything had to be ported to SUN. trivia: 1972, CEO Learson tried (& failed) to block the bureaucrats, careerists, and MBAs from destroying Watsons' culture/legacy https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/ it was greatly accelerated during the failing Future System effort, Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time Books https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Wars-The-Post-IBM-World/dp/1587981394 .... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr of free and vigorous debate was replaced with *SYNCOPHANCY* and *MAKE NO WAVES* under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in the shadow of defeat ... But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S took years to kill, although its wrong headedness was obvious from the very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism became political more FS info http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm then 1992, IBM has one of the largest losses in the history of US companies and was being reorged into the 13 "baby blues" (take-off on AT&T "baby bells" breakup a decade earlier) in preperation for breakup https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html we had already left IBM but get a call from the bowels of Armonk asking if we could help with the company breakup. Before we get started, the board brings in the former president of Amex as CEO, who (somewhat) reverses the breakup ... but it was difficult time saving a company that was on the verge of going under ... IBM somewhat barely surviving as financial engineering company -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970