While working in the Bell Labs (et al) world for 16 years… I was on the 5 person team that was the first to boot an OS on Intel’s then new Itanium chip. I was on-stage talking about this all around Europe
Unix Multiprocessor
I actually think I have this mouse-pad swag somewhere
The
Product
Know officially as SVR4.2MP / UnixWare (See history of Unix System V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V) for reference) was the first UnixWare release for multi-processors. It was a large re-write of the kernel especially the virtual memory portion to run on a multiple processor machine
The
Work
I owned everything ‘Human interface related’ portion of Unix, such as the serial terminal and SSH IP connection (This was before graphic based windowing systems). I forgot exactly why, but booting to ‘multi-user mode’ was required for me to get terminal support up. At the time the system only booted to single-user mode…. So I just said ‘go to multi-user mode’…
Well, 100 bugs later involving every single component of the system and many, many kernel crashes… Mostly in other sections of the OS… the system booted (and worked) in multi-user mode.
Once I did this the Bell Lab/Unix System Labs had a ‘go to multi-user mode’ party and I was roundly toasted.
This was a big ‘just get it done’ success at Bell Labs.
Other Work
Digital Gold Vault
Developer
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, Innovation
, Product Manage
, Project Manage
, Team Lead
View your gold, learn its history and see it’s blockchain backed ownership history. I conceived the idea, assembled a team and built it.
CP/M Porting
Developer
I was the world’s most prolific porter of CP/M to new hardware. It lead to an offer from Bill Gates.