21 Dec
2019
21 Dec
'19
7:32 a.m.
eww siemens destroyer of good products
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:57 PM Alan Perry via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 12/20/19 6:36 PM, Jon Elson via cctech wrote:
On 12/20/2019 02:53 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctech
wrote:
Nixdorf was eaten by Siemens 1990 to form Siemens Nixdorf
Informationssysteme (SNI).
I worked for SNI in Munich in 1991-92 porting SVR4 (branded as SINIX) to
a new 386-based multiprocessor system they were developing. I heard
there was a MIPS-based system that used the same chassis under
development at what had been Nixdorf in Paderborn.
alan
weird nixdorf is the last name of my boss whos in
his 70's engineered
lime
plants around north america for what became greymont
No, Nixdorf was a significant player in the computer business in Europe,
especially.
Wikipedia says they were the 4th largest computer maker in Europe at one
time.