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pjmlpyesterday at 11:21 AM1 replyview on HN

I did not count AIX / Solaris in, because they are always some racks in a server room, or the whole IBM / Unisys / Fujitsu for that matter.

I was only thinking about UNIX workstations, those under/besides the desk.

Otherwise you're right, there are few more options available still.


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stinkbeetletoday at 4:47 AM

Not true, they all did workstations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RS/6000

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1fz29tx/r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_IRIS#MIPS

https://www.openpa.net/systems/hp-9000_720_730_750.html

Apple (or NeXT) were never vertically integrated back then. In the last 6 years with Apple making their own CPUs for OSX you could call them a vertically integrated UNIX shop. Not minicomputer though, which is from my post you replied to. Apple was not a vertically integrated vendor that survived bottom-up attack, they attacked Intel from bottom up via mobile/smartphone cores in a similar way Intel did to the minicomputers.