3 Oct
2000
3 Oct
'00
10:08 a.m.
I used to have the rackmount version of this system (I don't recall
the /xx number, 41 maybe?)...it was quite a machine. Next to my other
main machines of the day (MicroVAX-II and a few 386 systems, this was
like 1989) it was a VERY fast box. Lack of networking was what killed
it for me. But aside from that, it was a pleasure to use.
-Dave McGuire
I did DEC Field Service in NJ at the Exxon Office Systems (nee Zilog}
development site in Princeton. The Zeus boxes were kind of Slick.
The Internal Revenue Service used them and a large UUCP network
for their office automation stuff.
They (IRS) started going to Pyramis MIServers in around 92... and used some
Pyramids before that...
Exxon Office Systems was created from (Zilog+Qux? or QUIP or something
like that) l did their development for some of the stuff
on Vax 11/780's in NJ and California. I installed one of the earliest
RM80's on an 11/780 (my first Vax install)... (about March or April 1981).
The company had a line of Unix boxes, word processors, fax stuff etc.
The Zeus stuff was modified SysIII with some BSD stuff added.
I believe they eventually got ethernet support.
Zilog was split between the California BSD lovers and the folks that
believed "System V consider it standard."
They phased out their Ultrix and BSD stuff for SVR2 shortly before
they got their plug pulled.
--Bill
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