On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Horsfall quotes: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote: > > > ...as I recall, there were PDPs, IBMs, Cybers (IBM clones), > > CDC, VAXen, and not much else available in '88
What!?! You must be kidding - there were *tons* more hardware vendors back then, at least in terms of variety, because everyone had their own CPU architecture, or at least a wildly variant operating system. >From the 1988 period, you're missing out: AT&T (3b2), Prime, Data General, Masscomp, Apollo, Ridge, Sun, Pyramid, Convex, Silicon Graphics, Mt Xinu, some company that made i860 multi- processors, Sequent, Bolt, Beranek and Newman had a 20-bit CPU (Butterfly?), Stellar, Ardent, Elxsi, and probably a pile of others. I seem to recall Z-80 based multi-user systems among others. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html