Data General Aviion (was Re: [SunRescue] OBP coolness)

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Oh, man. never heard those rumours but I loved the 88k in the day. My
first SA job that actually paid the rent was on a 2 cpu Aviion 4605 with
64 mb of RAM and 2 gig of disk with 17 NCD 16r (?) xterms hanging off of
thin net. 

After the god awful Interactive Unix on Essix Hardware (anyone else
share that nightmare?) I'd been supporting for my National Guard unit,
that Data General box was heaven. I may like Sun better these days, but
DG was always pretty underrated in my experiance. They make some nice
NUMA Intel based boxes too. 

William


> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:54:57PM -0400, jeff borisch wrote:
> 
> > And then there's like, the 715/80 at like, my friend Preetham's house. We
> > were just fooling around and flipped the power switch on the side without
> > proper shutting down. Then this little box comes up and says like, "don't do
> > that, do you want to turn off the computer or something?" We say yes and
> > poof it shuts down and powers off. We look at each other...
> 
> Most modern HPs can do that.  Rumor was that the 712 was to be the NeXT
> RISC Workstation (the NRW) until Jobs had a falling out with HP.  If you
> look at the 712 as compared to other HPs of the time, it's easy to
> believe it.  After the 712, HPs workstations (and many servers) took on
> a new look and functionality.
> 
> Then again, there was supposed to be an Aviion NRW, a 68060 NRW, a PPC
> NRW...  Lotsa rumors.
>
> Reagen
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