[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 44, Issue 3

[wb@freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte)]

Quoting Larry McVoy, who wrote on Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 06:18:33PM -0800 ..
> > Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:58:40 +0000
> > From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb at tfeb.org>
> > Subject: Re: [TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS...
> > To: Wilko Bulte <wb at freebie.xs4all.nl>
> > Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org, asbesto <asbesto at freaknet.org>
> > Message-ID: <CAC4A7E7-B4E5-41FA-BA05-7707366B6215 at tfeb.org>
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> > 
> > On 21 Dec 2007, at 12:31, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > >
> > > You could have DomainOS take a BSD or a SysV personality.  Very  
> > > interesting.
> > 
> > Very tangentially, Masscomp's RTU (real time Unix) could do this  
> > too.  Other than that I think it is definitely something best  
> > forgotten, as it was pretty horrid (although my memory may be biassed  
> > by the awfulness of the HW)
> 
> Oh, I have fond memories of the Masscomp.  That's where I learned how to
> do sys admin (recovered from an rm -rf /) as well as networking (based
> on 4.1c BSD as I recall, plus hacks).  Masscomp had a really nicely redone
> version of the socket programming docs that was most helpful at the time.
> 
> I was ..!uwvax!geowhiz!geophys!lm as I recall and all the geo* were 
> Masscomps.

Hm, yes, in the Apollo Domain days it was ..!mcvax!philapd!wilko

Wilko