Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!mirror!frog!cpoint!alien From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Op Environment vs Op System (was: NeXT not revolutionary enough?) Message-ID: <1409@cpoint.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 21:04:00 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> Sender: root@cpoint.UUCP Reply-To: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) Organization: Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton Mass. Lines: 6 Message-ID: > 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 ...