eww siemens destroyer of good products On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:57 PM Alan Perry via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > On 12/20/19 6:36 PM, Jon Elson via cctech wrote: > > On 12/20/2019 02:53 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctech wrote: > >> weird nixdorf is the last name of my boss whos in his 70's engineered > >> lime > >> plants around north america for what became greymont > >> > >> > > No, Nixdorf was a significant player in the computer business in Europe, > > especially. > > Wikipedia says they were the 4th largest computer maker in Europe at one > > time. > > Nixdorf was eaten by Siemens 1990 to form Siemens Nixdorf > Informationssysteme (SNI). > > I worked for SNI in Munich in 1991-92 porting SVR4 (branded as SINIX) to > a new 386-based multiprocessor system they were developing. I heard > there was a MIPS-based system that used the same chassis under > development at what had been Nixdorf in Paderborn. > > alan > > >