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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Correction:  Xerox, GE, and Honeywell
Message-ID: <3748@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 13 Dec 88 21:58:39 GMT
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Reply-To: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <1415@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes:
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|I recently posted an article saying that Xerox bought the computer line from
|GE that was then sold to Honeywell, which then had MULTICS developed on it.
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|In reality, Xerox bought the computer line (the Sigma series was Xerox's
|name) from someone else (CDC, SDS, something like that ...), then sold it
|to GE who sold it to Honeywell.
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|My apologies ...

Scientific Data Systems built the 900 series and then the Sigma
series.  Xerox then bought them from the founder and chief
stockholder, Max Pavlesky.

Lee