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

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Wed Apr 1 14:21:41 CDT 2009



On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, 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.

Sort of!?!?!?!  They're who bought Honeywell's computer division, and they 
make systems running GCOS-8 (though it runs on 64-bit Itanium 2 systems now
rather than 36-bit DPS-8 varients).

Zane



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