10 May
2005
10 May
'05
10:08 a.m.
From: "der Mouse" <mouse at
rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Hi
Convergent Technologies made a 8086 based machine that
was not PeeCee. It had some expansion slots that were
Multi-Bus but the processor board was not Multi-Bus.
I wish I had save one from a company that I worked for
that folded. Rats!
Dwight
I have an Altos 586, an 8086 machine that is
completely NOT a
pee-cee.
Hm, that might be an interesting question. What machines are there
built around x86 CPUs but which are definitely not peecees?
I suspect there are more of them with the earlier CPUs (8086) than with
the later ('386, '486, Pentium, etc). The latest one that comes to my
mind immediately is Sun's 386i (the "Road Runner").
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10 May
10 May
4:07 p.m.
Convergent Technologies made a 8086 based machine
that
was not PeeCee. It had some expansion slots that were
Multi-Bus but the processor board was not Multi-Bus.
I wish I had save one from a company that I worked for
that folded. Rats!
Was that the think that consisted of a long base plate with a monitor
fixed to one end and the logic box fixed to the other? I have one that I
cut in hald (and finsihed off the edges, etc) to make a it a lot more
convenient to accomodate. The original design was nothing short of
ridiculous!
IIRC there are 3 main logic boards (CPU, memory, video), with 2 multibus
slots. I never had the external disk unit for it, alas. I think mine has
a couple of comms cards in the multibus slots.
-tony
5:45 p.m.
Convergent also had a box that ran MSDOS that was not a PC that
was the M-1000 or such at Microdata. Had no resemblence internally
to the PC, which killed it.
At the time Convergent had been making a unix box, which I think was
cheap and 68000 based (anyone have one). They got into the commodity
business for PC x86 based stuff with a box that was nice and modular,
but not pc compatable because "big" companies didn't want to be meer
copiers of the IBM PC (remember victors?).
That box was dressed up and a licenced copy of revelation was munged to
be compatable with reality rather than pick.
For Jay's benefit, I think the changes were read back to revelation and
are still in AREV.
Jim
Tony Duell wrote:
> Convergent Technologies made a 8086 based
machine that
> was not PeeCee. It had some expansion slots that were
> Multi-Bus but the processor board was not Multi-Bus.
> I wish I had save one from a company that I worked for
> that folded. Rats!
I could be mistaken, but I don't think the CT box I'm thinking of above
had Multibus, but was proprietary. It consisted of a couple of 8 x 8 x 8
boxes with cpu and disk drives, a monitor, and then you added 8 x 8 x 4
modules to expand it.
all packaged in a plastic box like affair.
jim
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