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aschobel on July 4, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows

You're right, I misspoke when I said "NASDAQ runs on Windows".

The information dissemination system runs on Windows, the trading system run on Tandem.

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cdibona on July 4, 2009 [–]

My first job in the Silicon Valley was on the Himalayas doing QA. They were awesome machines. QA meant pulling drives and cpus in the middle of processing, browning out/cutting power, etc.. it was wonderfully destructive :-)

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