To: Peter from Rutland
Anyone remember or run across
Metaphor Computer Systems? Windows, Mac OS and OS/2 and all the rest of them never even came close. I watched IBM stroll in, take over and kill the company. Somewhere, in a forgotten closet in MS Castle Redmond, lies a complete Metaphor file server, database server and four workstations. They looked at it and turned their backs on it.
11 posted on
04/03/2012 9:57:41 AM PDT by
Noumenon
("I tell you, gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands." Col. Nicholson-The Bridge on the River Qwai)
To: Noumenon
Much the way HP killed off OSF/1 in favor of HP-(S)UX.
A crying shame.
To: Noumenon
Do remember Metaphor; was repackaged Xerox STAR and was way too expensive at ~$15K/workstation. Bit slice micro-coded D-machine architecture. Very nice.
At the time I was living on a Dorado and later a Dandelion, coding in Mesa with the Pilot/Co-Pilot development environment. Its like does not exist today, sigh.
38 posted on
04/03/2012 11:47:23 AM PDT by
Mycroft Holmes
(<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson