[rescue] Re: Tags and previous owners

[Stephen Dowdy]

> the FE revealed that the previous listed
> location was...the CIA.  Not that surprising,

I've got some monitors with 4"x6" bright blue tags saying
	"This station not to be use for classified processing"
or somesuch.

> My favorite tag was the "Property of Compaq CAE"
> tag on the GDM-1962 monitor...implying that
> Compaq used to use Sun boxen for some CAE
> task (motherboard layout?).

Actually Compaq Houston had a bungload of Solbourne systems
(many of which i still have).  They were configured as
	Series5/500 (desktop 5-slot)
	16 or 32MB RAM
	cg30 video
	GDM-1962
	Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive
	(all sporting the "Property of Compaq CAE" badges)
Pretty low-end boxes (SPARC2 class), probably mostly for remote X display,
as they also had a lot of high-end Series6 /900 boxes too that could do
much more crunching.

Apple computer also had a lot of Solbourne equipment in their CAE group
as well.

A Lot of CAE shops use(d) Sun/Solbourne stuff.  I believe the original
Commodore Amiga was designed on a Sun 3/60.

It's a testament to Solbourne's systems and OS/MP that it took nearly 5
years from Solbourne's Chapter 11 for places like Compaq and Apple to
clear them out for good.

While it may seem bad for a computer manufacturer to use a competitor's
system for its design team, it's far worse when you see a
word-processing/dtp layout program User Manual written in a competitor's
product! (i'd heard rumors of things like the MS Word manual being written
in FrameMaker in the early days)

--stephen
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