Encore (Marlboro MA, pioneer of parallel cpus) was amazing (or amazingly foolish)  because....roughly 100 employees cranked out this product/HW with not just ONE os: They had 3 flavors, all running on the same large (VAX-sized) Multimax hardware with heavy SCSI disks each a few hundred MB.
OS #1: BSD
OS #2: sysV
OS #3: UMAX, a mach hybrid if that helps

I got hired into a 3 person sysadmin team, 2 weeks later I learned my lead cohort was moving to FL leaving me as the new top puppy. But I was surrounded by UNIX literate developers, thrilled to learn from them! 

But mostly only colleges bought these systems, so the downsizing started soon after.   -doug

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 3:48 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:

Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about
Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing."

John> Amazing stuff.  And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the
John> years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use:  HPUX, AIX,
John> SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an
John> emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten.
John> Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex),
John> Cray's Unicos.  All systems I've supported and worked on over the
John> years.

Heh, I forgot Umax, from Encore Computing.  16xNS32000 CPUs, 64Mb of RAM,
$250k wheeled in, $25k when we wheeled it out three years later. 

John> With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my
John> work for the past 15 years I would say.  Though Solaris has lasted the
John> longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much
John> killed it off now. 

Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast
Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a
Tim> success!

John> Quirky is right!  I'm certainly quirky!  *grin*
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