[rescue] A Question about Snap Servers

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Sat Aug 7 22:27:47 CDT 2004


Mon, 02 Aug 2004 @ 10:11 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> (seriously, I saw some serious uptime on SCO boxes back in the day, circa
> '94-98 or so.  Tons of places would have a Pentium or 486 in the back with
> serial terminals hanging off it..)

Altos made quite a few SCO UNIX machines back in the day.

Multibus systems mostly, IIRC, and usually some terminal boards to take
the serial bus load off the CPUs.

I saw a dual-CPU 486 Altos running dozens of users without a problem
around 1993.

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