Drs/nx
 

ICL DRS/NX ? is it dead? are the DRS3000s & DRS 6000s dead along with it? does anybody know? Best wishes, Roland

Dead as in no longer produced? Yes.

Dead as in not able to run a current OS? Probably.

I can remember these beasties, although I would not have known anything about them without a search.

The later ones could run M$ NT on multi-P5 CPUs, but if you have a CP/M floppy laying around the ICLs worked great with that on 128KB RAM!

But use only near a hydro-electric source to avoid causing brownouts...

I thought as much
 

Hi,

I thought that might be the case. I was an ICL system developer / migration programmer back in the late 1980's / early 1990's, and worked on several DRS6000s linked to the odd 2960 mainframe and surrounded by DRS10/20 dumb terminals. One could do a great deal on them. MF/Cobol and RM/Cobol were popular tools for development / system & data migration, along with Ingres and Informix, either native or embedded. They were good days, not a PC in sight [yet!] but they were on their way.

The central hospital here in Almeria, Spain [Torrecardenas] was a DRS6000 customer and used it for many years although I never worked on it myself.

Thanks and best wishes

Roland