Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:12:47 -0500 From: Brent B.Powers <powers@b2pi.com> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re:Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <15025.41167.823903.2443@b2pi.com> In-Reply-To: <016a01c0ac52$29e2d080$0f00000a@eagle> References: <003701c0ac4a$e0a76cc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <016a01c0ac52$29e2d080$0f00000a@eagle>
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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew C Hornback <hornback@wireco.net> writes:
>> >also remember working with snow white and the seven dwarfs,
>> and >already knew that interoperability was something you got
>> in a computer >line, at least until the manufacturer decided to
>> play shell games to >kill the third party hardware market.
Andrew> Hmm... shall we say, IBM here? Just how many
Andrew> manufacturers adopted MCA? IBM, Tandy did a couple of
Andrew> machines with it ('course, Tandy always followed IBM's
Andrew> lead with strange hardware designs... Tandy 1000 SX
Andrew> followed the PC jr., need I say more?). I believe
Andrew> Siemens, Northridge, and possibly Fujitsu produced
Andrew> machines with MCA support. Anyone know?
TI, I'm sure. Same reaons as Radio Shack, but they always went one
semi-tech better (8 more octanes than regular IBM gasoline).
>> I don't remember if there was a lot of crossover between the
>> mainframe and PC people back then - I think the markets were
>> pretty foreign to each other.
Peter Norton was a mainframe hack. He had a little bit of influence on
the PC marketplace...
Andrew> There never really was a crossover. Gotta look at the
Andrew> big mainframe producers and see where they are now.
Andrew> Where's Cray? Last I heard they were part of SGI, who was
Andrew> also going in the tank over their line of NT based
Andrew> workstations (what the hell were THEY thinking?). IBM's
Andrew> Mainframe business... how many ES/9000s do you see being
Andrew> sold each year? They've moved to the AS/400 and RS/6000
Andrew> lines. And Digital? Now a division of Compaq, simply
Andrew> because Compaq couldn't build a high end machine to save
Andrew> their life and didn't know what good customer support was.
Andrew> Then there was Unisys and their Clearpath line, which may
Andrew> still exist, not really sure. But I know they've cut out
Andrew> their consumer PC division, and used a lot of resources to
Andrew> build the new high end servers that have CMP technology.
Andrew> What about Data General, or Wang, or ...
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