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From: jkubicky@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Joseph J. Kubicky)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Wang VS-80 question
Message-ID: <1991May1.065636.11512@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 06:56:36 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.214659.22978@panix.uucp>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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joseph@panix.uucp (Joseph R. Skoler) writes:

>Does anyone know anything about the Wang VS-80 mainframe?
>I was offered one cheap and would like to know a little about it.
>Any information or leads to information would be appreciated.
>I'd like to know if there is a Unix for it?  If it's printers
>and/or disk drives are SCSI? etc.

I worked for a small data-processing house that used a VS-85 as
it's main machine.  The thing was, IMHO, a dog.  The basic architecture
was along the lines of the 370 family.  I don't know about UNIX, but
they were running the standard Wang VS operating system that supported
a volume/library/file file system; that is, once you specified which
disk your file was on, you had a single level of subdirectories.  All
the terminals were special Wang terminals - generic VT100-types couldn't
be used.  This place was using the thing for COBOL and WP, and it
worked ok for them, but I wouldn't recommend it as a general-purpose
machine (when I worked there, I don't know if there was even a C compiler
available).

Jay Kubicky