Re: Folding bicycles with fenders/mud guards ?

in message <oo1rd4-lkd.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nick Kew
('nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx') wrote:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:05:35 +0100
Simon Brooke <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, on'y George III an a MOP. An' that George III were mad, mad I tell
thee.

Eeek! The first OS I worked on professionally was a George, and I think
it could've been III. Do you happen to recollect how many Georges there
were?

The various Georges ran on 2900 series machines; I'm pretty sure George III
was the last of them. According to Charlie Portman, my first computing
boss and team leader of the original VME/B development, George wasn't an
acronym for anything, it was the name of a senior person in the
development of the system. George wasn't strictly an operating system, it
was a sort of low level shell which ran on a primitive operating system
called Executive.

VME/B, which ran mostly on 3900 machines (later called VME/2900 and
eventually OpenVME; completely different from VME/K) was designed from
scratch as a new operating environment; one of the objects of VME was that
each separate process ran in a complete virtual machine over which it had
full control, so it was possible to run George (or any other 1900 series
program) in a VME process.

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