10 May
2005
10 May
'05
9:31 p.m.
In the "not-quite" category there is always the TI Professional
Around 1990 there were, AFAIK, several "superservers" that were supposed to
de-VAX the buisiness world, running XENIX/UNIX on multiple 3/486s
Mitac? made some, and NetFrame. Same period as the CPQ SystemPro. I think
they were serial-terminal console. Remember reading about it in PC magazine
back-issues.
I suppose we should *like* PCs-a bit- so much of the underlying contortions
are ca-1985 hacks, so it's not like we're running POWER, Alpha or PA-WideWord
based machines with modified Open Firmware (add touches of SRM and SGI ARCS),
extensible windowing system . . .
-Scott Quinn