On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:39:29AM -0500, Dave VanHorn wrote:
> > >>Which happen to have been replaced by Borland products that
> > >accept the same source code just fine...
>
> "We will never drop support for the PC Jr"..  An IBM spokesman less than 30
> days before support for the PC Jr was terminated.
>
> IBM RT anyone?

ROMP chip. Gave way to the Power architecture. I worked on
a demo unit for a couple of months in 1986. I remember
I was sitting at it's console when I heard that the
Challanger blew up.  That was January (the month that they
were announced), and I recall that we all appreciated it's
space heating capabilities. AIX, as implemented on the RT
PC, was essentially an application running on a lower-level
OS called the Virtual Resource Manager, similar in concept
to NT's Hardware Abstraction Layer. Later that year, we
did an RFP for a whole workstation system: Workstations,
servers, network cabling & electronics, etc. There were
four bidders: IBM with the RT PC, Apollo with their Domain
Workstations, DEC with the MicroVAX, and an integrator
bidding Sun 3s. Thank goodness, the Sun bid won...

--Bob

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