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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory
Message-ID: <2016@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 13:25:09 GMT
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In article <1990Jan15.181550.2397@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:

| I know people who tried and failed to make Unix run on the 9000.  The problem
| is that IBM Instruments was a little company in Connecticut that made gas
| chromatographs, and the 9000 was designed to be a lab machine to control
| instruments.

  There was a version of Xenix for it, I was asked to install it for the
people who had the 9000. It was breathtakingly slow. I don't know if the
software was production, beta, or ESP, but the installation was fairly
simple. The performance was not up to an XT running PC/ix.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me