EX/ NCR TOWER

[Lord Kahless]

> I believe that the only Unix software development done at NCR Columbia (where
> the Tower is made) is NCR's System Administrator menu package. NCR San Diego
> was working on their own System V port, but that was for the 9300/9400 series
> of minicomputers. That whole idea got trashed because corporate management
> didn't want the 9300/9400 to compete against Columbia's Tower XP and 68020
> products. 
> 
>       -m-------     Carl S. Gutekunst, Software R&D, Pyramid Technology
>     ---mmm-----     P.O. Box 7295, Mountain View, CA 94039   415/965-7200
>   -----mmmmm---     UUCP: {allegra,decwrl,Shasta,sun,topaz!pyrnj}!pyramid!csg
> -------mmmmmmm-     ARPA: pyramid!csg at sri-unix.ARPA

The system administration menu on the Sys V 2.01 Tower looks almost
exactly like the menu on the Durango Poppy II box, which runs XENIX.
The only difference I noticed is that the Tower version works, aside
from some minor bugs and some sloppy screens.