R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>
> > classic -- please give us examples of '86 boxen that _can't_ run an
> > MS OS. And tell us how those are more "classic" than an XT.
>
> Convergent N-GEN computers (Burroughs B25, etc). Available in 80186,
> 80286, and 80386 flavours, if not also 80486 or later.
Well, a fair number of those at the Convergent campuses in San Jose
were running MS-DOS when I worked there back in 90-91. Possibly
not the best way to run the gear (is MS-DOS _ever_ the best way to
run the gear?) but functional. Don't recall any '486 NGENs -- I
was working with the Unisys 6000 series mostly, didn't actually
_use_ any NGENs myself, but did use several old (left over from the
AT&T contract) Unix PCs as my consoles for the machines I was doing
software QA on. The '486 was fairly new at the time, I'd been given
to understand that NGEN was a dead series then -- pretty machines
that they were.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
Received on Mon Sep 21 1998 - 02:05:29 BST