I (via Purdue surplus) had some NCR Worldmark 5500's (5 refrigerator sized
cabinets each with two MCA bus mulit-processor Pentium Pro systems, and a
total of 4TB of storage, back when that was about 1000 disks). I still have
the mutli-cpu Pentium box that was the management system for that, but it
That was it: MP-RAS. It was neat, kind of good, but to be honest Windows
NT 3.51 and 4.0 ran very well on it.
Just weighed a literal ton. For all I know it's still in the basement of
their Dupont Center office (now long closed)
C
On 7/21/2020 11:50 AM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
Wow, would love to
Wow, would love to have a machine like that. The “weird unix” was probably
MP-RAS which was NCR’s SysVr4. NCR was selling massive x86 MCA systems for
Terradata setups in the early ‘90s.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:54 AM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> Now in terms of the most MANLY system I worke
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 2:38 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 7/16/20 12:07 PM, Ali wrote:
> > MS LanMan was Microsoft's networking OS of choice before NT. The base
> > OS I believe was based on MS OS/2 1.31.
>
> I'm trying to discern if it was it's own independent O
On 7/16/20 12:07 PM, Ali wrote:
MS LanMan was Microsoft's networking OS of choice before NT. The base
OS I believe was based on MS OS/2 1.31.
Hum.
I'm trying to discern if it was it's own independent OS, or if it was
more a package of a COTS OS (OS/2) and LAN Man package, like Back Office
/
>
> Please elaborate on what you mean by "the full server OS".
MS LanMan was Microsoft's networking OS of choice before NT. The base OS I
believe was based on MS OS/2 1.31.
Wiki has some more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_Manager
I have a copy of it somewhere. Here is a picture of the packa
On 7/16/20 9:40 AM, Ali via cctalk wrote:
there was even a version of MS LanMan (the full server OS not the client)
Please elaborate on what you mean by "the full server OS".
My understanding is that Microsoft LAN Manager was an /add-on/ product
that could be installed /on/ /top/ /of/ an /exi
Now in terms of the most MANLY system I worked on, that would be the
NCR3550 we had at the IEEE Computer Society. When I arrived in 1993 it
had been donated, but was doing nothing with 4 486 CPUs in it and a
weird copy of AT&T unix. I took one look at the 256 bit interleaved
memory architecture
> > Had a full compliment of memory,
> > max internal disk on the ATA controller,
>
> ATA? That long ago?
>
> Possible but unusual in a server, I would have thought.
Funny story about that - I just setup a Systempro XL at home to play with. It
is fully decked out w/ dual processor 50MHZ 486s (
