Don't forget Siemens-Nixdorf was a major reseller of Pyramid OS/x and DC/OSx (SysV
R4) and eventually they purchased the remnants of Pyramid after AT&T (a major Pyramid
shop and OEM) bought NCR and stopped using/selling Pyramid when DC./OSx was just appearing
on the Pyramid MIServer MIPS R3000 boxes.
Bill
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-----Original Message-----
From: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
To: Ben Greenfield <ben(a)cogs.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Sent: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:42
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old 386 Unix Versions, was: Re: PCC for the i386
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).