alt Hacker NewsI started working on Stratus machines right out of high school... They took me from backwoods New England to Wall St.
The were Awesome machines - don't let those filthy hobbitsis...err..tandem users cloud your judgement. Stratus was pure hardware FT, and tandem... wasn't :-P
Vos was pretty nice too - decent macro language - not all the utils you expect with a unix box, but in terms of the core OS and shell it was pretty good machine .. 40 years later I still love those machines and the career they helped get me into :-D
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Oh Tandem, you don’t hear that much anymore. They still have plenty of them still running banks and what not under the name HP non-stop.
Hey, I worked there in high school as an intern! But just on the intranet, which for its time (‘96?) was really quite good.
I spent six months programming on VOS after a gig on a VAX. Yes, I'll be outside telling the kids to get off my lawn as soon as I find my reading glasses and have a nap.
VOS was intuitive and did what I needed. Nothing flashy. Just useful. I miss that sometimes. Give me a tool that works; if it also happens to be great, lovely.
I didn't work much with the Stratus hardware, but reading about it was fascinating. I wish I remembered more of it.