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Rob Allen  
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 More options Dec 2 2005, 1:33 pm
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From: "Rob Allen" <robertwallen2...@yahoo.com>
Date: 2 Dec 2005 10:33:45 -0800
Local: Fri, Dec 2 2005 1:33 pm
Subject: Re: Updating MV Family Tree
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Simon Verona wrote:
> I worked for ADP for several years (albeit 7 years ago).. They ran a
> customised version of Reality/X at the time, which they developed to suit
> themselves (they updated the compiler to assist in us porting our UK
> application from MOE to ADP's Reality)...   In addition, they would from
> time to time retrofit items from the standard version of Reality/X into
> their own..

> As far as I am aware, whilst they have tried to replace Reality, I believe
> that it is still used today unless somebody else knows better!

> Out of interest, they also did some work with jBase several years ago but
> decided not to move from Reality at the time, though we did move the UK
> application from ADP Reality to jBASE running on an IBM RS/6000 platform.

I work at ADP now, and we do indeed still use our own version of
Reality, running on Red Hat Linux. There hasn't been a serious attempt
to replace Reality since they stopped the jBASE project in 1996, and
there have been few if any changes made to our version of Reality since
then except for the web interface.

Our last machines that ran Reality as the OS went away in the
preparations for Y2K - we decided we weren't going to update the
software and we made the clients move to Unix. The last ones were a few
McDonnell-Douglas 'Spirit' (Motorola 68000) machines and some of our
homegrown Micro-1000 and Micro-2000 boxes - Intel 8086 machines running
Reality. Those are the only computers that ADP ever produced ourselves,
and probably the only instance of the Reality OS running on Intel
processors.The near-legendary HP 3000 Pick implementation never made it
out of the lab. Dick raved about how good it was for years, but I've
been told that it was comparable to others of its time. Dick knew that
no one would ever see it, so he could say anything he wanted.

Rob Allen
ADP Dealer Services
Portland, OR


 
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