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- Subject: Re: Burroughs B20
- Message-ID: <ANWR4606AD2D80@MPA15AB>
- From: MPA15AB!RANDY@TRENGA.tredydev.unisys.com
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:48:00 GMT
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- This was posted by someone internal to Unisys, with the intent that it appear
- in the news group. (We are having some difficulties with automatically
- sending items to the news group.) So, I am forwarding this manually.
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- Relay-Version: version 40.109.8019; site MPA6DE.Unisys
- Posting-Version: version 40.109 11/04/92; site MPA6DE.Unisys
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 3:33 pm PST (23:33:35 UT)
- From: Samuel S. TAN (Mission_Viejo) <SAMTAN @ MPA6DE>
- Path: MPA6DE.Unisys
- Newsgroups: ext.comp.sys.unisys
- Subject: 2Re: Burroughs B20
- Followup-to: general.discussion
- References: <ANVQ510995710C@MPA15AB.Unisys>
- Message-ID: <ANVR3333EC4445@MPA6DE.Unisys>
-
- I am gratified by so much interest in the B2X from non-Unisys
- people. It is a wonderful machine with a lot of ahead-of-its-times
- innovations. I worked with them since 1979 and had lots of success
- marketing it in the Far East. It had the clustering and multi-tasking
- long before LAN & OS/2 were even conceived. It had context manager
- with windows long before WINDOWS. It had protected memory mode since 1985.
- CTOS integrated printer device drivers with Generic Print System (much
- like what MS Windows is trying to do now) since 1987. It has an
- extensive and comprehensive communications facilities: TCP/IP, X.25,
- SNA,Voice, modem server, gateways...
- The clustering (LAN) runs on cheap twisted-pairs at 3.68 megabits/sec
- nowadays. It allows master/slave and/or peer-to-peer file and device
- sharing with a comprehensive security and monitoring function in CTOS.
- CTOS can support simultaneous executions of CTOS, MS DOS, WINDOWS applications
- in separate contexts - sounds like OS/2, doesn't it.
- It even has an AT board called a ClusterCard that makes a PC/AT function
- like a CTOS workstation.
- Nowadays, a B39, for example supports SCSI devices, SVGA-equivalent
- monitors, math coprocessor...
- A lot of banks buy CTOS by the hundreds for its versatility and connectivity
- to various mainframes. Unfortunately, it is not appreciated by most PC
- users. There are over 220,000 CTOS/BTOS worldwide.
-
- Samuel S. Tan; Suite F-525;Mail Stop 240; Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
- Net~2 656/(714)380-6583 Fax: 714-380-6048, or -6560, or -5138
- {EMAIL}5138/EMMK or SAMT/Corp, {USA}<SAMTAN@MPA6DE>, {Canada}TANS/TOR2
- SAMTAN%MPA6DE@trengA.Tredydev.UNISYS.COM
- *=* Any explicit opinions are mine; imply or quote at your own risk! *=*
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