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

[Scott Dorsey]

Rich Alderson  <news at alderson.users.panix.com> 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.)

Yes, Compuserve was a PDP-10 shop.  I mentioned them because Mr. Slauson was
posting through them, not that I expect that they would be a startup which
purchased a lot of vaxen and then collapsed before actually using them.
--scott

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