5 Feb
2013
5 Feb
'13
2:16 p.m.
It is an Ultimate system in all likelyhood. There is a chain which uses
Pick currently that had Ultimate in a lot of their operations, perhaps
the ones that were seen were also the Ultimate systems.
I have 4 of these in stock. they run 68040 processors, 4mb of mem, and
up to 4 ESDI drives.
I don't think there were many other customers for these but for
Ultimate. Ultimate also marketed systems with a PDP 11 system hosting a
co processor which ran the ultimate pick code. Same binary would run on
both their Honeywell Level 6 systems as the PDP's, but the monitor code
which did I/O was vastly different for obvious reasons.
These systems had a cross compiled version of the system which had
larger 4k pages, and ran in native 68000 code. The monitor functions
etc., and the Ultimate source assembly code was mostly the same for
these systems. This system and the Ultimate 370 / ESA systems both were
cross compiles from the same ultimate virtual assembly into their hosts
native processor code, preserving the virtual structure of the Ultimate
system.
Jim
On 2/5/2013 1:20 PM, mc68010 wrote:
On 2/5/2013 1:05 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
mighta been a industrial machean
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:11 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:
It does remind me a lot of the Inventory systems you found in auto
parts warehouses once upon a time. Heavy duty case because people in
warehouses hate computers. No real display because nobody working
there would know what it meant anyway. Everything locked up because
people would break it otherwise.