History Check -- First CMOS mainframe
John Allain
allain at panix.com
Sat Mar 4 17:10:45 CST 2006
> From what I
> can gather, the Micro A was pretty much a plug-in coprocessor PCB in an
> otherwise x86 box that booted OS/2.
> "1989 Unisys introduces Micro A, the first desktop, single-chip
mainframe."
Lucky Me, somebody turned up some history on my oddity
There is in fact a desktop emulator of a Unisys mainframe
that boots the coprocessor from within OS/2. I have one
here. Happened across it by pure luck. I'm not an expert
in the MCP O/S so have been in lurkmode on this for a
longnow while.
John A.
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