17 Jul
2019
17 Jul
'19
4:41 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:39 AM Ben Greenfield via TUHS <
tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
I know that it didn’t run Unix but I believe Nixdorf Computer was the
large computer company at that time.
Both Nixdorf and Siemens were heavy into UNIX. Both were founders of OSF.
Nixdorf OEM'ed a couple of machines from US firms, as well as making
their own. Siemens and Philips both trended to make their own systems.
IIRC Philips was mostly in the AT&T Camp at the time. Olivetti was
definitely since one of the original 386 systems AT&T tried to sell was
their PC (in fact was one of systems ISC used for the original 386 UNIX
port - supplied by AT&T).