From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Apollo Domain/OS
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:25:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202001220025.00M0P5bG3369286@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DEE23024-04E3-4A37-AD17-41EC725B8B0A@eschatologist.net>
Chris Hanson writes:
> My understanding is that there’s a direct line from MULTICS to Prime to Apollo,
> in that Apollo was founded by former Prime folks who took their philosophy with them.
>
> Apollo’s operating system (Aegis, Domain, Domain/OS) had a lot of good and
> interesting ideas and was quite influential despite the relatively small
> number of people who used it. A lot of what we take for granted today in
> distributed computing came via Apollo more than anywhere else, as Apollo
> users and alumni took what they learned to other systems.
>
> — Chris
I stil have some Domain/OS books here if anyone wants 'em.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-22 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-21 19:02 Pete Wright
2020-01-21 19:14 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-21 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-21 21:52 ` Chris Hanson
2020-01-21 22:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 22:43 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-21 22:58 ` Charles H Sauer
2020-01-21 23:00 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-22 0:20 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 1:18 ` Richard Salz
2020-01-22 16:31 ` Paul Winalski
2020-01-22 18:06 ` Pete Wright
2020-01-22 0:25 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2020-01-22 7:11 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-21 22:09 ` Dennis Boone
2020-01-21 23:53 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-01-22 2:47 ` Chris Hanson
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