Sharp rolled out the OA-8100, the industry’s first UNIX office automation processor, in June 1983. Using UNIX System III as a base, Sharp developed OA/UX, which added Japanese input and output operations and extended the file access functions.
The model’s primary features were as follows:
(1)Designed for new office automation installations in workplaces, the OA-8100 and all other models in the series were easily extensible from single-user systems to multiuser systems.
(2)The UNIX operating system included special Japanese-language processing functions developed exclusively by Sharp. The CPU was an MC68000, which enabled very fast processing of large amounts of complex data.
(3)The OA-8100 made integrated office automation applications possible, because it provided image processing for graphing numerical data and Japanese word processing, along with conventional data processing.
(4)In terms of communications, it supported Sharp’s local area network (SRN) standard and could be extended to Ethernet-compliant LANs. It also offered native support of circuit-switching networks and packet-switched networks with leased lines or public communication lines. The OA-8100 could communicate with general-purpose computers from other companies through the provision of IBM 3270 / 3780 / 2770 emulators.
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