17 Jul
2019
17 Jul
'19
3:38 p.m.
On 17 Jul 2019, at 14:50, Dagobert Michelsen <dam(a)opencsw.org> wrote:
Am 17.07.2019 um 14:32 schrieb Ben Greenfield via TUHS
<tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>:
Yes, indeed there were many, in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, etc. but, unlike the USA,
there is nobody apparently trying to keep it all together.
Is the Deutsche Museum in Munich doing something about German IT history like the Computer
History Museum in California?
In the UK there’s the Historical Computing group within the BCS who publish a frequent
newsletter with their work, they have exhibits at Bletchley Park and they took it upon
them to write the histories of the Lyons, ICL, AMT, Inmos, etc.
I was recently trying to find something about Olivetti’s Unix: Olivetti re-branded the
AT&T 3B2 and AT&T re-branded their beautiful M24 on which I briefly used Xenix for
the 8086 (I *think* it was branded Xenix) but it was just a US UNIX version which spoke
English.
Arrigo
On Jul 17, 2019, at 5:28 AM, Arrigo Triulzi
<arrigo(a)alchemistowl.org> wrote:
There was also Sinix from Siemens that was derived from Reliant Unix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINIX
https://web.archive.org/web/20120324121229/http://maben.homeip.net/static/S…
Unfortunately I didn’t have had much exposure to it and don’t own any install media or
such :-/ Does anyone have documentation or history for
European efforts in the Unix-like operating systems? For example there was Bull’s Chorus
which I seem to recall was based on Mach or a competing microkernel (it was a very long
time ago and I used it for no mare than about two hours..).
I know that it didn’t run Unix but I believe Nixdorf Computer was the large computer
company at that time.