tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603174461344479143.post989324697835492056..comments2024-02-14T18:14:24.187-08:00Comments on 20011: RIP Tom West, Begetter of "a New Machine"Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603174461344479143.post-81407358111226569012011-05-25T07:45:27.424-07:002011-05-25T07:45:27.424-07:00I had never run across mention of the DG Aviion, b...I had never run across mention of the DG Aviion, before. Interestingly, it seems the only notable 3rd-party commercial use of the Motorola 88000 RISC processor. I know that NeXT was building their RISC workstation around it and, presumably, had OPENSTEP running on it. So that which became Mac OS X was running on that beleaguered CPU at one point.<br /><br />Here's a Flickr photoset of the box:<br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/31231773@N02/sets/72157623685623868/<br /><br />And a screenshot of DG/UX running on an Aviion:<br />http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/dgux-x.desktop.png<br /><br />I read and quite enjoyed "Soul of a New Machine" and found it inspiring. It would have been interesting to be involved in hardware design way back when. It's less pioneering work today, it seems.blakespothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11189345817777210750noreply@blogger.com