RIP: Tom West (Data General, "Soul of a New Machine")

Post by cafard » Wed, May 25, 2011, 5:07 PM UTC

kabdib wrote: post #14

shareme wrote: post #8

Damn, I had the opportunity to use some Data General Machines in the 1980s..fine machines, reliable, etc... I am the only older one here that remembers using the machines?

I used an MV/8000 ("Eagle") when I was writing video game cartridges for Atari. I never really programmed it -- maybe a little scripting in their shell -- but just used it for cross-development to some home computers. The system rarely crashed. I was used to 4.2 bsd, but the DG was still a nice system. It got bogged down during the day with 40-50 users running an awful little email and office automation app, but it w…