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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:12:11 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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> "Cromemco, Onyx, Yourdon, Whitesmiths, Amdahl, and Wollongong Group."
Cromemco: They built S-100 bus computers starting with z80 machines
and later (I think) using 68000 and 8086 (on VME machines?). I think
Cromix ran on the z-80 stuff and I thought they used UniSoft's port of
System V on 68000 versions.

Onyx: Z-8000 based computers.  Seem to recall they also had a V7
UNIX port of some sort running on them.

Yourdon: Told people how they should design software.

Whitesmiths: was started by P. J. Plauger (previously of Bell Labs),
had a UNIX workalike (V6, and later V7) called Idris, which didn't
require hardware MMU.  They had a line of nice C compilers for
a number of processors (starting with z-80 i think).  Got sold to
Intermetrics. 

Amdahl: made IBM 360/370 plug compatible (clone);
Was bought by Fujitsu (I think?)  I can't recall what UNIX variant
they had for it, or who did the work. This wasn't the MERT stuff, was it?

Wollongong Group:  They were the guys that had an IP stack
implementation for System V on the AT&T 3B line of
computers and the UNIX-PC.