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Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.58.0404210053590.2887@dave.horsfall.org>
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: Re: [FD] Super Worm
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bruce Ediger wrote:
> What!?! You must be kidding - there were *tons* more hardware vendors
> back then, at least in terms of variety, because everyone had their own
> CPU architecture, or at least a wildly variant operating system.
>
> From the 1988 period, you're missing out:
>
> AT&T (3b2), Prime, Data General, Masscomp, Apollo, Ridge, Sun, Pyramid,
> Convex, Silicon Graphics, Mt Xinu, some company that made i860 multi-
> processors, Sequent, Bolt, Beranek and Newman had a 20-bit CPU (Butterfly?),
> Stellar, Ardent, Elxsi, and probably a pile of others. I seem to recall Z-80
> based multi-user systems among others.
CCI, WICAT, ICL, NCR; on the Z-80 side there was Onyx and many others...
-- Dave
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