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Brings back memories of playing around in the shell on an Atari TT at CeBit '91 or so. Having had an apprenticeship in a company producing their own machines (N
by tannhaeuser 5y ago
Brings back memories of playing around in the shell on an Atari TT at CeBit '91 or so. Having had an apprenticeship in a company producing their own machines (Norsk Data) and porting System V, as well as having used Atari GEM graphic shells, made me want to avoid DOS or even CP/M for personal use and especially development at the time ;) Then used AIX and Interactive Systems professionally until Linux and the BSDs came about. There was also a short period in 1992 or so when I had the option to use A/UX (Apple's System V port at the time) as file server, though NetWare 2 and 3 were cheaper and better suited for DOS/Windows networking.
- technothrasher 5y ago> until Linux and the BSDs came about. I assume you mean BSD/386 and successors? BSD itself was first released about eight years before AIX. AIX even has bits of 4.3BSD in it.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoSure; that was just the order I encountered these. I was also surprised that Linux' LVM was basically a clone of AIX' (whereas FBSD's vinum was a clone of Veritas).
- p_l 5y agoIIRC LVM was based on HP-UX, EVMS was based on AIX LVM
- unixhero 5y agoOoh Norsk Data. How was it?
- rbanffy 5y agoNot sure about the software, but the hardware was gorgeous. I have an eBay alert for the "Norsk Data" and "Nordata" strings.
- unixhero 5y agoSome are stored throughout Norway. If you're willing to maintain it well you might find a donor in. Norway. http://www.sintran.com http://www.sintran.com
- ojn 5y agoThere are a few collectors in Sweden too.
- johndoe0815 5y agoNTNU's computer museum has quite a number of Norsk Data machines, but they are unfortunately not accessible to the public.
- unixhero 5y agoHere is a motherboard for sale https://www.finn.no/246230727 https://www.finn.no/246230727
- tannhaeuser 5y ago> How was it? Good times! Ergonomic terminals, hamacas, happy hour on Fridays, smoking at the desk, SINTRAN ... To clarify, this wasn't in Oslo but in Kiel, North Germany, where they had a co-op with Christian-Albrecht-Uni for compilers (other than ND's own PLANC language), and also developed a system for public libraries.
- unixhero 5y agoSounds great thanks for the insight :)
- ojn 5y agoLI-FI,,, It's sad how the ND-100/500 (and 5000+) families have almost completely disappeared, including online material about them. The IT department at my university was involved in NDIX development (BSD for ND-5000), I believe. This was a few years before my time so I didn't get first-hand exposure to that. I do regret not holding on to one of the Compact ND-100/110s that we had around in the late 90s, nor any of the Tandberg terminals that we had huge numbers of.