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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Op Environment vs Op System (was: NeXT not revolutionary enough?)
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Date: 1 Dec 88 15:25:18 GMT
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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?
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/jr
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