Anybody ever heard of DUAL

[Bridget Dobbins]

In article <676 at cbnewsm.ATT.COM> szirin at cbnewsm.ATT.COM (seth.zirin) writes:
>In article <11791 at duorion.cair.du.edu> bshafer at dunike.UUCP (Bob Shafer) writes:
>>There is a company called DUAL that makes a UNIX box.  Has anyone ever
>>heard of them?  Is there anybody that actually has touched one?  Are
>>they any good?
>
>DUAL was one of the first (the first?) commercial 68000/UNIX\(rg boxes
>around and their v7 came from Unisoft and was called UNIPLUS+\(rg.  I 
>
>A company named Megadata (Bohemia. NY) was also one of the 68000/UNIX
>pioneers and their v7 came from Unisoft as well.  Megadata's boxes
>were (are?) pretty good (I did many of the device drivers :-) ).

Dual Systems, which was founded in Berkeley, California, in the late 1970s
went bankrupt almost a year ago.  Megadata, however, is still alive and
well.

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