Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!bbn!jr@bbn.com From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Op Environment vs Op System (was: NeXT not revolutionary enough?) Message-ID: <32928@bbn.COM> Date: 1 Dec 88 15:25:18 GMT References: <471@wucs1.wustl.edu> <48@necbsd.NEC.COM> <26446@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4833@polya.Stanford.EDU> <145@avsd.UUCP> <4163@encore.UUCP> <32289@bbn.COM> <27921@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <32711@bbn.COM> <1409@cpoint.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge MA Lines: 19 In-reply-to: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) In article <1409@cpoint.UUCP>, alien@cpoint (Alien Wells) writes: >>[me:] Also, MULTICS was >>built on a GE 645 (I think that's the right number), which went to >>Honeywell when GE left the computer biz. > >Please ... let's not forget that Xerox tried to be a computer company way >back when. GE sold the system to Xerox, who then sold it to Honeywell ... I thought there was another company in there, but I thought it was RCA. I know RCA's other computers (Spectra-70, RCA-2, -3, -6, -7) went to Honeywell. Xerox purchased the SDS (Scientific Data Systems) computer line (became XDS), including the 940, which was one of the inspirations for TENEX as I said before. I believe Butler Lampson was an architect of the SDS line before joining Xerox Parc. Computer History is fun. Anyone think this is getting too far off the NeXT topic though? -- /jr jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr