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Xenix ran on the master node of the Intel iPSC, a commercial hypercube used for parallel computation starting in the mid-to-late 80s. The compute nodes used a
by jbgreer 10y ago
Xenix ran on the master node of the Intel iPSC, a commercial hypercube used for parallel computation starting in the mid-to-late 80s. The compute nodes used a proprietary OS.
I also worked for a retailer that used SCO Xenix for Point of Sale and other applications. 386/16s and 386/20s with 16, 24 or 32 port serial boards running serial printers and dumb terminals. Fun times.
- TimJYoung 10y agoI also worked for a retailer with a very similar setup (I wonder if it was the same one). It was amazing how many terminals you could sling on to a 386/20 and still have the whole thing work. The retail software was custom-written C that used a UI toolkit/library for the screens, but the name of the toolkit escapes me. I was in support at the time and didn't actually code the software, so I have no problem saying that it was a hot mess. :-) I managed to grab some SCO Xenix installation floppy disks when I left (they had moved on to Netware/MS-DOS at that point, so the disks were just going to get thrown out). I still have them around somewhere...