On 6/29/06, Ken Seefried <ken at seefried.com> wrote:
The premier box was the 3600... up to 32 i486
processor... Ran pretty
bog standard SVR4.
I never saw a place to plug a keyboard and mouse into one of these...
I don't recognize it from your description... we had newer/smaller ones
than that.
Then there were the 3550, 3500 and 3450 (at least...I
think there were
more). Proprietary Pentium multiprocessor, Microchannel minis...well
constructed and fast for the time. Kinda sorta like Sequents. They ran
SVR4 or SVR3.2, and I've seen at least one of them run NT 3.1.
That's more like what we had. I can't recall the specific models (I almost
never had to work with them, but I did walk past them every day). About
the only spec I can remember is quad P90s, and either 4 or 8 Microchannels
per box, and loads and loads of 1-2GB disks.
Being a Western Electric/AT&T/Bell Labs/Lucent (pick a year) facility, ours
ran SVR4. We had smaller boxes for NT 3.1... lots and lots of smaller
boxes (with a pretty bad machine/admin ratio compared to the NCR and
Sun farms).
I never attempted to _run_ DOS on them, but I was told it was possible,
and I do seem to recall they had a keyboard jack and VGA connector
for the console, but that could be a fuzzy memory.
-ethan