Sadly, it sounds like something that my client had when I joined them in Sept 1984. Something called a Microframe, a bank of 8086/8088 motherboard s tied by a mass of RS-232 cables to a telecomm frontend. Every user got a dedicated processor in a DOS session.
From Wikipedia: In 1983 Tycom Corporation introduced the Tycom Microframe, heralded at th e time as the "first fourth-generation computer". The computer at the core was an Intel Corp. 8088-based multiuser system t hat had a performance range extending from a mid-range microcomputer to a high-end minicomputer of the time. Described by some observers of the London computer scene as "future proof ," Microframe contained a vendor-developed bus architecture called Versatile Base Bus Connect (VBC) that enabled its chassis, which was available in 6 -, 12- and 22-slot versions, to accommodate Zilog Z80, Motorola 68000 and Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-11/70 board-level upgrades. * "Tycom Offers 8088-Based System," Computerworld, February 7, 1983 On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:21:47 -0400, Macioce, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci 1270788,00.html?track=NL-576&ad=602745&asrc=EM_NLT_2119907& amp;uid=5701628 >Mace
