[Info-vax] CompuServe system architecture [was Re: DEC VAX 8650]

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/10/2023 4:28 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
> Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> On 2023-02-10 17:14, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> But Compuserve is long gone and this appears to be a drive-by because
>>> Mr. Slauson doesn't seem to have posted anything else much to Usenet.
> 
>> Compuserve was mostly running PDP-10 unless I'm confused. Would be a
>> little surprised if they had plenty of -8650s, but I could be wrong.
> 
> Compuserve was indeed a PDP-10 shop.  They developed router software which ran
> on KA-10 processors to set up their network, and provided database access to
> customers running System 1022 as the underlying engine.  (They eventually
> bought the company in order to have continuing development of 1022.)

Compuserve was a pretty big shop at some point in time.

Running their core business on PDP-10 would not exclude
running some other stuff on VMS.

Arne