Nixdorf computer AG boards rechner 154

Adrian Stoness tdk.knight at gmail.com
Sat Dec 21 09:32:40 CST 2019


eww siemens destroyer of good products

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:57 PM Alan Perry via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:

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> On 12/20/19 6:36 PM, Jon Elson via cctech wrote:
> > On 12/20/2019 02:53 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctech wrote:
> >> weird nixdorf is the last name of my boss whos in his 70's engineered
> >> lime
> >> plants around north america for what became greymont
> >>
> >>
> > No, Nixdorf was a significant player in the computer business in Europe,
> > especially.
> > Wikipedia says they were the 4th largest computer maker in Europe at one
> > time.
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> Nixdorf was eaten by Siemens 1990 to form Siemens Nixdorf
> Informationssysteme (SNI).
>
> I worked for SNI in Munich in 1991-92 porting SVR4 (branded as SINIX) to
> a new 386-based multiprocessor system they were developing. I heard
> there was a MIPS-based system that used the same chassis under
> development at what had been Nixdorf in Paderborn.
>
> alan
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