From: wb@freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: [TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS...
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:31:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071221123113.GB79553@freebie.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8E64A249-6E64-41F2-BCBF-E5A365D62905@tfeb.org>
Quoting Tim Bradshaw, who wrote on Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:15:19AM +0000 ..
> On 21 Dec 2007, at 10:09, asbesto wrote:
> >
> >
> > We just recovered an HP APOLLO Series 400 in our computer museum,
> > and we got the installation tapes of DOMAIN/OS. It seem a very
> > particular flavour of BSD 5.3. We also made a dump of the
> > tapes, to preserve it. :D
> >
>
> My memory, which is fading, is that DOMAIN/OS was previously Aegis,
> and was not actually a Unix at all, although it had (or later had,
> perhaps) a lot of compatibility. It has all sorts of cool features.
You could have DomainOS take a BSD or a SysV personality. Very interesting.
There was also some fileserver functionality that allows
//fileserver/some/path/somefile style access to everything we had hanging
off the tokenring network.
Rather neat.
Wilko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-21 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-21 10:09 asbesto
2007-12-21 10:38 ` Wilko Bulte
2007-12-21 11:15 ` Tim Bradshaw
2007-12-21 12:31 ` Wilko Bulte [this message]
2007-12-21 12:58 ` Tim Bradshaw
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