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Largely unrelated anecdote:

About 1992-3, I worked at IBM Austin on the IBM Microkernel and Workplace OS[1]. The development machines we were using were "Sandalfeet"[2][3] which ran AIX and (IIRC) a weird 64-bit port of Windows NT (and the in-development Workplace OS). I once expressed the opinion that these were pretty neat little machines, and a co-worker (a real IBMer who had been there for a while, not a contractor like me) told me that they had warehouse full of them somewhere since they were never going to be released.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS

[2] http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-for-powerpc-tidbits/a-look-i...

[3] http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ibm-power-series-exotica/ I don't recall the boxes looking like the image of the Power Series 600; they were black, desktop machines, too tall to be pizza-boxes.



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