Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!kchen 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 Lines: 23 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.