Sperry Univac Minicomputer

From: Pat Barron <pat_at_transarc.ibm.com>
Date: Tue May 16 16:06:21 2000

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Owen Robertson wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about the UNIVAC minicomputer(s)? I didn't
> know there was such a thing as a UNIVAC minicomputer, until I came
> across a picture of one in a book the other day.

What did it look like? The only UNIVAC's I'd ever gotten to see that
could be described as "minicomputers" were both special-purpose machines:
The "SSP", which was used as the front-end/maintenance processor for the
1100 mainframe, and the DCP, which was a communications processor used to
support "demand processing" (a/k/a, interactive timesharing) and
transaction processing applications on the 1100. I'd be curious to know
what others there might be.

--Pat.
Received on Tue May 16 2000 - 16:06:21 BST