Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!uupsi!vitro!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: What was, and is no more Message-ID: <194@raysnec.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 91 04:39:17 GMT References: <1991Jan01.183414.19220@Veritas.COM> <1991Jan02.133014.26506@buster> <1991Jan3.174300.968@sci34hub.sci.com> <1991Jan4.034125.13977@NCoast.ORG> Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch Lines: 15 allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: >Be nice to see this for software, though, I'll admit. On the other hand, it >may be notable that Plexus is no more. (On the *third* hand, they were the >last of the companies from the early Silicon Vally boom to disappear --- many >other computer companies from the same time period died much earlier. For a kick, you might want to review the charter issue of Unix/World (January, '84 as I recall) and see who was active and who wasn't. (Remember Onyx? Dual? Zilog?) Hewlett/Packard was releasing its first boxes. I had a close look at Plexus in mid '84... a nicely engineered box. To my knowledge, Plexus is still around, but works strictly on image processing. ---------------- uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech