British Computers.

James james at machineroom.info
Tue Sep 4 03:21:19 CDT 2007


>> (from Jim Austins collection) : Elliot & Ferranti
> 
> I thought we were excluding larger machines.

Ah, missed that bit... Ferranti did seem like an obvious miss :-)

>>
>> Whitecross (WX9xxx & later). Massively parallel transputer (and later 
>> x86) SQL machines. Doesn't do much without a Sun frontend but the 
>> machine itself was designed & manufactured in the UK. Sadly, the 
>> transputers it uses are ST rather than Inmos. I have one as a pet :-)
> 
> What's the difference? 

French vs. English. It'd be nice if the chips were british too whilst 
we're being all patriotic




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