shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (01/05/91)
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: >Be nice to see this for software, though, I'll admit. On the other hand, it >may be notable that Plexus is no more. (On the *third* hand, they were the >last of the companies from the early Silicon Vally boom to disappear --- many >other computer companies from the same time period died much earlier. For a kick, you might want to review the charter issue of Unix/World (January, '84 as I recall) and see who was active and who wasn't. (Remember Onyx? Dual? Zilog?) Hewlett/Packard was releasing its first boxes. I had a close look at Plexus in mid '84... a nicely engineered box. To my knowledge, Plexus is still around, but works strictly on image processing. ---------------- uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) (01/07/91)
As quoted from <194@raysnec.UUCP> by shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake): +--------------- | For a kick, you might want to review the charter issue of Unix/World | (January, '84 as I recall) and see who was active and who wasn't. (Remember | Onyx? Dual? Zilog?) Hewlett/Packard was releasing its first boxes. I had | a close look at Plexus in mid '84... a nicely engineered box. To my | knowledge, Plexus is still around, but works strictly on image processing. +--------------- Plexus went Chapter 13 and reorganized as an image processing company; as a computer vendor, they are no more. (That was what I meant. They may in fact still sell specialized hardware, but not complete systems.) ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY
richard@octel.UUCP (Richard Karasik) (01/10/91)
In article <194@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes: >allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: > > For a kick, you might want to review the charter issue of Unix/World >(January, '84 as I recall) and see who was active and who wasn't. (Remember >Onyx? Dual? Zilog?) Hewlett/Packard was releasing its first boxes. I had >a close look at Plexus in mid '84... a nicely engineered box. To my >knowledge, Plexus is still around, but works strictly on image processing. I remember Onyx well - I was managing SW there until it was bought out by Dorado. Arix is also ready to bite the big one. -So what is your point. These companies had a good idea -A good idea, and couldn't really get the SECOND good idea. Plexus came closest to transitioning to another good idea. What about the thought that -proprietary UNIX iron has gone the way of the dodo and so aside from a few humongous proprietary hwre companies, Unix iron in order to run reasonable Unix (reasonable = at least as good as proprietary hwre) is fast becoming a commodity item like DOS. Hence computer companies -other than those biggies now in existence or chasing a niche (like maspar, and a few others) will eventually wither. Richard