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From: kchen@Apple.COM (Kok Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Correction:  Xerox, GE, and Honeywell
Message-ID: <21928@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 88 19:33:47 GMT
References: <1415@cpoint.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1415@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes:
>...
>In reality, Xerox bought the computer line (the Sigma series was Xerox's
>name) from someone else (CDC, SDS, something like that ...), then sold it
>to GE who sold it to Honeywell.

SDS (= Scientific Data Systems) originally built the Sigma-n, n = 5,7,9, etc.
When XeroX bought it, it was renamed XDS (Xerox Data Systems).  I don't 
remember GE being in the loop.  I had the recollection that after XDS, the 
Sigma series was peddled by Honeywell. 

The SDS Sigma-5 was a great number-crunching "mini" with floating point h/w,
at a time (late '60s) when most minis had to do floating point with s/w.
Anyone else remember RBM ("Real-time Batch Monitor") on it?

Some old(-er)timer may know this for sure - didn't Max Palevsky start SDS?
Isn't same said person currently on the Xerox board?

Er, what does this have to do with comp.sys.next?


Kok Chen			{decwrl,sun}!apple!kchen
Apple Computer, Inc.