[TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS...

[TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS...

[asbesto]

Hi! 

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

Does someone know more about it? What about licensing? Is
it covered by some sort of hobbyist license? 

Kisses to everybody! :)

asbesto/freaknet computer museum 
http://museum.freaknet.org 

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[TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS...

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting asbesto, who wrote on Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:09:13AM +0100 ..
> 
> Hi! 
> 
> 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

Ah... fond memories.  Our CAD/CAM systems at Philips information systems
were these Domain OS boxes.

> 
> Does someone know more about it? What about licensing? Is
> it covered by some sort of hobbyist license? 

No clue.

> Kisses to everybody! :)

Hm, can you send a picture first? ;-)

> asbesto/freaknet computer museum 
> http://museum.freaknet.org 
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[TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS...

[Tim Bradshaw]

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.

[TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS...

[Wilko Bulte]

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

[TUHS] HP Apollo Series 400 and DOMAIN/OS...

[Tim Bradshaw]

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)