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From: hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Anybody ever heard of DUAL
Message-ID: <377@amms4.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 89 22:08:40 GMT
References: <11791@duorion.cair.du.edu> <676@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <2080@unisoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross)
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>>In article <11791@duorion.cair.du.edu> bshafer@dunike.UUCP (Bob Shafer) writes:
>>>There is a company called DUAL that makes a UNIX box.  Has anyone ever
>>>heard of them?  Is there anybody that actually has touched one?  Are
>>>they any good?

I had occasion to use the DUAL/Unisoft systems in the early 80's.  They were
excruciatingly slow.  I never did find out if it was the hardware or the
software.  It certainly couldn't have been the number of users, as there were
only about 6 or seven per machine :-).

>In article <676@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> szirin@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (seth.zirin) writes:
>>DUAL was one of the first (the first?) commercial 68000/UNIX\(rg boxes
>>around and their v7 came from Unisoft and was called UNIPLUS+\(rg.

In article <2080@unisoft.UUCP> bridget@unisoft.UUCP (Bridget Dobbins) writes:
>Dual Systems, which was founded in Berkeley, California, in the late 1970s
>went bankrupt almost a year ago.

If memory serves correctly, the DUAL boxes were based on the S-100 bus (from
CP/M fame) (or was it the Intel Multi-bus they used?  Now I am not sure).
This might help to explain their demise :-)

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