5 Sep
1998
5 Sep
'98
4:09 a.m.
On 5 Sep 98, at 11:52, Allison J Parent wrote:
No, server is a newer concept. It was an integrated
multiuser system where
there was one CPU (Z80) per user and likely ran CP/M, MPM (or clone like
turbodos). The 8086 was likely a local server for disks and such to the
local z80s. They all used the bus as a physically short network to
exchange data.
The Altos 586 ran Xenix off the 8086 IIRC. My father's office used
one about that time for their accounting. They looked at the Altos,
a Fortune and one other Unix based system at the time and picked
the Altos. They felt the company had a little better staying power
over the others. Not a bad little system, they ran 3 users with no
more than 1 meg of memory and could have put a couple more on
it. Don't recall the sizes of the disks.
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