From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wb@freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:06:24 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 44, Issue 3 In-Reply-To: <20071222021832.GA27487@bitmover.com> References: <20071222021832.GA27487@bitmover.com> Message-ID: <20071222100624.GA86816@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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 > > Subject: Re: [TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS... > > To: Wilko Bulte > > Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org, asbesto > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > > > 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