From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: barron@telerama.com (Pat Barron) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:44:27 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] IBM's AOS In-Reply-To: <200402092224.09361.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> References: <200402092224.09361.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: <1076345067.4027b8eb80ed1@webmail.telerama.com> Quoting Wesley Parish : > 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.