Besta (computer)

Besta (computer)

Besta (Беста) — a Soviet Unix-based graphics workstation. Their production started in 1988. More than 1,000 Besta workstations were produced.

There were several modifications of the computer.

Besta-88 had a Motorola 68020 CPU and VME bus.

The operating system was a legally ported version of AT&T UNIX System V Release 3.2, also known as Bestix.

Links

* [http://www.osp.ru/text/302/5596/ «Беста-88», Natalia Dubova (in russian)]
* [http://www.linuxcenter.ru/lib/history/lh-05.phtml?style=print Linux in Russia (in russian)] - contains a citation of M. Moshkov on Besta


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