What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2055
Eric Chomko
Bill Pechter (pechter-at-gmail-dot-com) Open enough to spawn a whole clone market that would actually kill it?! No, as great as the PDP series was, it NEVER was open enough where a...
Really... I guess the Pyramid MIS multicpu supermini's (kind of like todays multiprocessor server) didn't exploit Unix.
Nope. No dual Universe AT&T BSD hybrid. And Sequent with the Symmetry and Balance stuff...
Nope... these guys started feeding DEC it's lunch in the 85 timeframe when Commercial Unix started getting hot.
An 11-70 shop (The Robert Wood Johnson foundation) ran v6 on a creaky old 11-70 with a specially ported database (ported from IBM 360 or something like it) back in the early 80's. Ran across them after I left DEC when they ported the same stuff to a Pyramid 9000 or 98mx multicpu box and later when they looked into moving it to the MIPS based SVR4 box running multiple R3000's.
Eric Chomko BSD wasn't free until the x86 days... 386BSD was the first really free version you could...
Really... your idea of Unix in the commercial marketplace is limited.
I wonder what Robert Wood Johnson's running now. Probably AIX if I know their folks mindset.
Big, solid, safe hardware. Good support. Not going out of business any time soon.
Bill
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