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From: bridget@unisoft.UUCP (Bridget Dobbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Anybody ever heard of DUAL
Message-ID: <2080@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 89 23:49:37 GMT
References: <11791@duorion.cair.du.edu> <676@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: bridget@unisoft.UUCP (Bridget Dobbins)
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In article <676@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> szirin@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (seth.zirin) writes:
>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?
>
>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.  I 
>
>A company named Megadata (Bohemia. NY) was also one of the 68000/UNIX
>pioneers and their v7 came from Unisoft as well.  Megadata's boxes
>were (are?) pretty good (I did many of the device drivers :-) ).

Dual Systems, which was founded in Berkeley, California, in the late 1970s
went bankrupt almost a year ago.  Megadata, however, is still alive and
well.

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