"Petter Fryklund" <petter.fryklund@atero.se> wrote in message 
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>I don't think the U2200 is weird, it is or was actually a very nice 
>machine.

Well, the actual machine code is very weird; it was weird enough that they 
provided our project with a guy whose main job was to figure out what was 
happening at the lowest level and feed it back to the rest of us working in 
the "normal" world.

>Unfortunately most of the Unisys Linköping people where kicked out
>before we could try Ada, but we where very interested in it then. I for a
>while maintained the local releases of COBOL before going in to
>performance analysis and cache-disk simulations.

So far as I know, no one ever used the Ada 95 compiler we built for Unisys. 
(I hope not, 'cause we never got paid for one. :-) It was a lot harder 
project than we predicted and it didn't get done fast enough for the 
prospective customers. A very interesting project, though.

>Is there any U2200 out there? comp.sys.unisys talks a lot about virtual 
>ones.

Dunno. I haven't heard from any of that group in many years.

                                         Randy.