X-Nico

unusual facts about System X


System X

SIGSALY, secure voice transmission system; sometimes called "X System"


Coral 66

A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s/early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

System Y

British Telecom decided to use the AXE10 digital switch in the mid-1980s to end its total reliance on GEC's System X.


see also

IBM System x

Starting out as IBM PC Server, rebranded Netfinity, then eServer xSeries and now System x, these servers are distinguished by being based on off-the-shelf x86 CPUs; IBM positions them as their "low end" or "entry" offering.