17 May
2010
17 May
'10
8:10 p.m.
On 5/17/2010 12:49 PM, Sridhar Ayengar<ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Tandy wasn't the only other company making MCA machines. NCR made quite
a few different models. I believe Siemens made one or two as well.
The NCR Microchannel machines were quite well done. They spanned i486
and Pentium 1 desktop machines (the 3000 series?) through the WorldMark
series with up 16 (or was it 32?) PPros running SVR4 to the
Terradata-based boxes like the 3600 & 3700. I did some pretty
interesting stuff on the later two at a large airline a long time ago.
There was some definite teething pains with the SMP implimentation, but
those were impressive boxes when things went well.
Olivetti made some interesting Microchannel machines as well.
KJ