Yes and the NETFRAME was very similar. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-588-4723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ext. 40441
> -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Thomas Kern > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:42 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Does this sound vaguely familiar to anyone???? > > 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 motherboards > 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 the > time as the "first fourth-generation computer". > > The computer at the core was an Intel Corp. 8088-based multiuser system > that > 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_gc i1 > 270788,00.html?track=NL-576&ad=602745&asrc=EM_NLT_2119907&uid=570162 8 > > >Mace
