Besta — a Soviet Unix

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

-based graphics workstation

Workstation

A workstation is a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems...

. 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

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

 68020 CPU and VME bus

VMEbus

VMEbus is a computer bus standard, originally developed for the Motorola 68000 line of CPUs, but later widely used for many applications and standardized by the IEC as ANSI/IEEE 1014-1987. It is physically based on Eurocard sizes, mechanicals and connectors , but uses its own signalling system,...

.

The operating system was a legally ported version of AT&T

AT&T

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 UNIX System V Release 3.2, also known as Bestix.

External links

• «Беста-88», Natalia Dubova (in russian)
• Linux in Russia (in russian) - contains a citation of M. Moshkov
  Maksim Moshkow
  Maksím Eugénievich Moshków is a public figure of the Russian Internet segment, the Runet.He graduated from Moscow State University Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. Since 1991 he has been an employee of the Scientific Research Institute of System Development, where he among other duties is...
  
  on Besta