Talk:Kendall Square Research

I am not aware of any more than 1 machine delivered by KSR and that was to ORNL. I am not certain what "moderate" means in the context of this page. -(anon 3 June 2004 198.123.22.50)


 * I worked there at the time. There were at least two machines shipped, but I think there were more. Some university had a page about their KSR up, several years after the company ceased to exist. -Harmil 10:35, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

There was a KSR1 at the University of Manchester in the UK. I used it briefly, and wrote a single program to get to know the machine (a Mandelbrot program, using pthreads) but then funding for it vanished, and access to the machine was terminated. I think this was in 1995.


 * I was at Manchester and used the KSR1 in 96/97; I seem to remember the network card failed at some point and it being decommissioned, since fixing it wasn't possible. The RAM alone was worth a lot of money even then.

KSR delivered systems to the Univ. of Manchester, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Massachusetts, CalTech, several commercial customers (I believe that at least a small configuration, part of a larger system contracted, was up and running, but am uncertain), and several other places. I would have to research to be certain, but believe that there may have been a dozen or so systems up and running, and a number more in production for customers, when the company collapsed.

Two additional sites: Cornell Theory Center and NCAR -- National Center for Atmospheric Research in Bolder, CO.

Summarizing
How about replacing all of the above with the shorter:

Sites: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) University of Massachusetts University of Manchester California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Cornell University Theory Center (CTC)

143.232.210.150 (talk) 21:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The technology and product engineering was superb, and the underlying architecture was a major step forward in computing. The combination of the times and of the management failures were fatal, and thus robbed the rapidly growing customer base-- and the world -- of the full realization of what could have been a major step forward in both business and computing for the 21st century.  Indeed, very sad precurser of the impact of greed and dishonesty, similar though much smaller than what we saw a decade later, with MCI Worldcom and Enron. (anonymous comment)

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A couple of details
OSF/1 is actually based on the Mach operating system. It provides Unix interfaces but the internals are very different (with the caveat that with the Mach "macrokernel," up to 2.6MSD, the Mach services were pounded into the side of a Berkeley 4.3 Unix kernel).

The other thing is that what took KSR out was actually accounting fraud. Their business people were writing up revenue for equipment that was placed but not paid for, several of their officers were prosecuted by the SEC for insider trading, shareholder lawsuits followed, and the company folded up its tent. Yes Indeed.'

And disappeared into a venture called 'Dolphin Systems'.

There was definitely a machine at the Cornell Theory Center. Mlshore 10:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

SUN
SUN Microsystems cited at the bottom is No More. 143.232.210.150 (talk) 23:43, 30 August 2011 (UTC)