[SunRescue] Tape drive

Tue May 22 00:06:20 CDT 2001

[ On Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 00:35:38 (-0400), Jonathan Katz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Tape drive
>
> The rumors are that Bull Groupe in France were porting it to x86 (or
> possibly MIPS) when they bought the rights to the source in the early
> 80s or something. They never completed it (or if they did they never
> released it) and it is sitting on QIC-80 tapes in some basement in
> Paris.

Yeah, but at last some of those rumours hint that it was targetted to
just-as-hard-to-find i386-based super-minis, such as the Sequent
machines.

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