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Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> writes:
> The IBM Displaywriter was IBM's CRT word processor, and came out in
> 1982. According to an IBM website, "A system of three displays sharing
> a single higher speed printer and a paper handler sold for $26,185 and
> leased for $845 a month." (That's $67,555 and $2180 in 2018
> dollars. Granted, it's for 3 workstations sharing a printer.)

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#94 Old word processors

followon to displaywriter was going to be 801/ROMP running CP.r written
in PL.8 (they had something like 200 people working on it in Austin).
the followon is canceled (plausibly because people moving to IBM/PCs).
They then decide to retarget to the unix workstation market and get the
company that did AT&T unix port to IBM/PC for PC/IX to do a port to
801/romp. This is then announced as PC/RT with AIX.

The followon to romp is rios for the RS/6000. The group also cuts
a deal with wang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories
typsetters, linasec, 1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories#Typesetters
word processors (including wang 1200, 1972)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories#Word_processors

one of the executives we worked with in RS/6000 (and HA/CMP) went over
to the wang effort in new england.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories#Decline_and_fall

In June 1991, Wang started reselling IBM computers, in exchange for IBM
investing in Wang stock. Wang hardware strategy to re-sell IBM RS/6000s
also included further pursuit of UNIX software.

... snip ...

801, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, power/pc, etc posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
HA/CMP posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp

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