Gregory's Server1983: Intel wants to sell systems, not just chips, so they partner with Siemens to develop fault-tolerant Unix workstations using the i960XA. They create a spin-off company BiiN in 1988, discover there's no market for $815,000 systems, and shut down BiiN 15 months later.
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 @kenshirriff Thanks! This is amazing, it even had (what looks to me like) single system image clustering.  @kenshirriff one remanent of BiiN was its system bus technology that was later sold to Pyramid Technology and became the R-bus (name?) in the Pyramid Technology Nile series of MIPS R4400 based super-minicomputers. The intended hot pluggability of that bus was never functional AFAIK. Pyramid was later acquired by Siemens and disappeared, such is the circle of life. |
@kenshirriff Wow. I'd like to learn more about BiiN/OS.