Convergent Miscellany

From: Jeff Kaneko <jeff.kaneko_at_ifrsys.com>
Date: Tue Jun 23 09:26:24 1998

<Stuff about Convergent Heavy Iron SNIPPED>

> Convergent Technologies of San Jose California built a number of Unix
> and other platforms, most of which were OEMed by other companies --
> NCR, Burroughs, Sperry, AT&T are the most prevalent. A few years
> after Burroughs and Sperry merged into Unisys, they bought Convergent,
> so I'm an ex-Unisys person since I got there a year later. Anything
> you find running CTOS or CTIX is a Convergent box -- the AT&T Unix PC
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^
> ran CTIX, though the name didn't show up on screen. Convergent's
      ^^^^

OKay, so what happened to the source for CTIX? Did it vanish? Who
does it belong to? WHo do you think I belongs to?

Just Curious--

Jeff


> 68xxx systems included the Miniframe and the Megaframe that later
> evolved into the Convergent S-Series and the Unisys 5000 series.
> (When I was there I got stuck on the damned U/6000 series, with
> bloody Intel CPUs and ISA buses).
> --
> Ward Griffiths
> They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
> Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
> Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
>
>
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Received on Tue Jun 23 1998 - 09:26:24 BST