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Onyx Systems, Inc., founded in Cupertino, California in 1979 by Bob Marsh and Kip Myers,〔APPSCI: Board of Directors, Media Services (website) () accessed 2010-04-27〕〔 was one of the earliest vendors of microprocessor-based Unix systems.〔Cornelia Boldyreff, ACM SIGSMALL Newsletter archive, v.7 #1 (February 1981), pp.7-8, ISSN:0272-720X〕〔Peter H. Salus, "The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin" ()〕 The company's first product, the C8000, was a Zilog Z80-based micro running the CP/M OS, with a hard disk, and a tape drive for backups.〔"New Onyx CP/M 2.0 Operating System", ''InfoWorld'' (then ''Intelligent Machines Journal''), 2 Nov 1979, (p.4 )〕〔"Onyx System Packs 8-inch Winchester", ''InfoWorld'' (then ''Intelligent Machines Journal''), 9 May 1979, (p.8 )〕 It included IBM terminal emulation and a COBOL compiler, with a Z8000-based CPU add-in board to follow.〔"COBOL & IBM 2780/3780 Emulator for Winchester-based Micros", ''InfoWorld'' (then ''Intelligent Machines Journal''), 3 Oct 1979, (p.2 )〕 In 1980 Onyx introduced the C8002 based on the Z8000. Its $20,000 price was half the cost of any other computer capable of running the operating system, and included Bell Labs' Unix Version 7.〔John L. Bass (1999). "More about Onyx Systems" DMS Design (web) ()〕 The Unix-based product was the first platform for the Informix relational database system.〔("Oral history of Roger Sippl" ), Computer History Museum, CHM Ref: X3655.2007, p.16〕 Former Harvard economics professor William Raduchel recruited Scott McNealy to manage manufacturing at Onyx. McNealy left Onyx to become a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.〔"Scott McNealy and Sun Microsystems", Center for Management Research, Case Code LDEN039, 2006 ()〕 Onyx was acquired by Corvus Systems in 1985.〔"Spring finds Corvus making a profit", ''Network World'', 18 April 1988 (p.40 )〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Onyx Systems」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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