From: barron@telerama.com (Pat Barron)
Subject: [TUHS] IBM's AOS
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:44:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1076345067.4027b8eb80ed1@webmail.telerama.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402092224.09361.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz>
Quoting Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>:
> Does anyone know anything more about it than I do, which is that it was a
> rebadged 4.3BSD for the RT platform? And stands for Academic Operating
> System?
The first version of AOS was basically a straight port of 4.2BSD.
The second version was a straight port of 4.3BSD. As a friend of
mine once described it, "With all the bugs, just like you remember
them!" (since the initial releases were done without any of the
publicly available fixes - though many of those were added over
time)
Aside from the support for "minidisks" (a way of dividing up a
hard drive that was compatible with AIX 2.x for the RT, sort
of like DOS/Windows "FDISK" partitions....), and support for some
RT-specific devices like the ACIS Experimental Display, there
really wasn't much remarkable about it, as such - just another
port of 4.xBSD ...
--Pat.
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2004-02-09 9:24 Wesley Parish
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