raspberry Pi

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Mon May 6 14:10:48 PDT 2013


On 5/6/2013 3:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
[...]
> To the best of my knowledge and belief, the only non-x86 CPUs for which
> any Unix version of Filepro was ever compiled were the AT&T 3b2/7300's,
> and the 16032 in the NCR Tower, and I'm relatively certain none of those
> are still available.  Maybe also the IBM RT.
[...]

Well, there was, of course, the original -- the Tandy 16/6000 with the 68000 
processor.

Over the years, there were other 68000-series based computers beyond Tandy 
and NCR, such as Plexus.  Then there was the 88000-series Data General DG-UX 
line.  (Unlike the x86 processor line, every manufacturer had their own, 
mutually incompatible, *nix binary format.)  There were two HP-UX versions 
that I recall -- one "IA64", and another for some RISC processor.  There was 
also the IBM AIX (both RS/6000 and PowerPC) computer line.  And there was a 
Sun SPARC version as well.  There was an "Ultrix" port, but I don't recall 
the CPU. And I don't know if you would consider the VAX/VMS version a "Unix 
version".  (No, VMS is nothing like Unix, but filePro's functionality was 
identical to the Unix version.)

And I'm sure I've forgotten other, more obscure, systems.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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