17 May
2010
17 May
'10
12:24 p.m.
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Patrick Finnegan
<pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
I played with a couple of those at Lucent, c. 1997. ISTR something
like P90 processors (4?), many MCA buses, each with many SCSI cards
and *lots* of SCSI cables going over to a JBOD cabinet.
The fun part was that as massive as they were (physically larger than
a VAX 11/750), they'd still boot DOS, still had a VGA interface, and
still could run Doom!
-ethan
? ?Were there
any other MicroChannel systems out there aside from IBM
and Tandy? ?I seem to recall there was at least one other.
NCR. ?Big SMP machines, and some desktops, with 486 through at least
PPro processors running NCR's UNIX.