12 Jul
2005
12 Jul
'05
12:48 p.m.
Everyone seems to remember Sun and SGI (although I do
think SGI machines
have a bit of style to them!) but I bet there are a *lot* of forgotten
machines in the workstation class from the 1980's / early 90's.
Actually, are we only counting machines that ran Unix-a-like systems, or
anything in the workstation class? (i.e. does PERQ qualify? :-)
I suppose we could say "all machines count", but seeing some of the lines
that actually had a chance in the market (and a dent on history) die would
suck. I would think Apollos, Teks, and Integraphs would be the more
important machines. For example, Integraph made a hell of a lot of
machines using an interesting architecture, and even modified VAXes for
servers, but after they got out of the hardware business quite a few years
ago, it is almost like everything simply vanished.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org