Silicon Graphics files for Chap 11 and is sold to Rackable for $25 Million

[Alexander Schreiber]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 07:50:15PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 02:20:30 pm Paul Koning wrote:
> > >>>>> "Sridhar" == Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:
> >  >>
> >  >> IBM not an old name?
> >
> >  Sridhar> That's what I was thinking...  IBM is about the oldest name
> >  Sridhar> left in the computer industry.  There's Unisys still around,
> >  Sridhar> barely.  Groupe Bull. Who else?
> >
> > I suppose Bull made computers, sort of.  
> 
> Didn't they buy Zenith Data Systems though?
> 
> > There's Philips, though I believe they quit the business some time ago.
> >
> > What about Siemens?  That's older than IBM.  I used one of theirs,
> > years ago...
> 
> I didn't know they made computers.

Oh yes, and made as in "built their own stuff" not as in "slapped their
label on it". 

Examples:
 - BS2000 mainframes: basically a slightly modified S/390 hardware with
   something similiar to OS/390 (I only saw that stuff from a distance),
   dead
 - SINIX Unix servers: Their own hardware architecture, MIPS CPUs and
   a (IMHO) truly horrible Unix, dead
 - various x86 PCs, using their own board designs and production lines
   (IIRC still in production)

Regards,
       Alex.
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