> Amdahl had its own Unix called UTS. I think it was well regarded, but > never really took off. Did another company take it over when Amdahl was > acquired?
Disappeared into history I think. > And there was Amdahl's Huron, a rule-driven database. I ended up teaching > an internal class on it at Amdahl when the regular instructor fell ill. It > was quite interesting, in both good ways and bad ways. It also never took > off (terrible interface, for one thing, and not made by a major database > vendor for another). It was later sold and renamed ObjectStar. I never > hear anything about it; I don't know if it disappeared or just became a > niche product. I have very little knowledge of Huron, but one of my friends was a developer on it before Amdahl folded. I think the biggest hurdle it had to overcome was its staggering price. Only the customers with the deepest pockets could even think about it. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
