Nortel Meridian PBX systems ran OS/2 Warp on a PowerPC processor.. those systems were rarely rebooted. I bet there are many still running.
Nortel Meridian PBX systems ran OS/2 Warp on a PowerPC processor.. those systems were rarely rebooted. I bet there are many still running.
Wow, PPC? I once had a Norstar NAM for voicemail, and did connect a monitor and keyboard and witness OS/2 on that. I think the NAM was an x86-based system. But I know the Meridian PBXs themselves were completely distinct from Norstar that I used. Never knew Nortel used PPC. Very neat!
Though my time with them came only as non-IP phone systems started to be considered obsolete, I am still a huge fan of the rock-solid stability and realtime speed of those digital systems. Not to mention their lack of a need for subscription services to operate.
Some ran the AMD K6-2 as well...
Probably some but those old towers were not VoIP capable and the handsets are no longer sold. I doubt there's many around.
The voicemail card was basically an 8088 and i think still used floppies IIRC. I didn't work with them directly but I used symposium heavily as an admin (symposium was the callcenter solution)
I just saw one last week in a building we're looking to purchase. Still in use by the current occupant.