[sinkspur]

"We've jumped to Linux," said Stuart Waldron, a senior technical staff member in I.B.M.'s software group. "Anybody who works on Linux can now work on T.P.F."

I worked with Stu Waldron when he was lead TPF SE on the American Airlines team from 1987-1994.

Of course, SABRE, the original test bed for TPF, is now migrating to Linux-based application software developed internally. They'll be running it on mirrored HP systems.

TPF is a magnificent product and could handle anything SABRE threw at it, but, man, at $30 GRAND a month, twelve copies was choking American Airlines.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I never worked with TPF, though I was in the BO that handled TWA....

[sinkspur]

Bill Cohen, TPF Product Director for IBM in the late eighties, would bend over backward for Max Hopper, CIO at AA. IBM only had about 100 total customers for TPF, and a development staff of 25. And, like the article says, they were all Assembler geeks.

Did you ever work with Paula Bush? She was my contact on the TWA team.