On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bruce Ediger wrote: > 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.
CCI, WICAT, ICL, NCR; on the Z-80 side there was Onyx and many others... -- Dave _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html