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From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)
Subject: [TUHS] RT/PC-centric AIX history
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 22:27:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W4PD9PhDTNOJ-QE1DFvHSfc-mnVA3pS0i37aRh03nhZ5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06D4621236AA4E76A87D603786775B68@studyvista>

Wow, this is really cool, Charlie. It puts a lot of stuff in perspective.

I wonder if you might add a bit more detail about the BSD ports? That's
what we ran on our RTs; I seem to recall that product was only available to
educational institutions and was referred to as AOS: "Academic Operating
System." I do recall that it came with NFS, and possibly AFS version 2? It
seemed to be approximately 4.3-Tahoe based. The AFS bit is hazy....

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Charles H Sauer <sauer at technologists.com>
wrote:

> I've refrained from jumping into AIX & RT/PC discussions on TUHS. It seems
> more appropriate to summarize AIX history than try to correct or clarify
> specifics out of context.
>
> I wrote about 5 pages, got feedback, revised accordingly, and posted at
> https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2017/03/08/lets-start-
> at-the-very-beginning-801-romp-rtpc-aix-versions/.
>
> Charlie
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-10  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-09 19:41 Charles H Sauer
2017-03-09 19:51 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-09 20:14 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-10  3:55   ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-10 12:08   ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-10 15:34     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-10  0:25 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-10  3:27 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2017-03-10  4:01   ` Charles H Sauer
2017-03-10 12:09   ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-10 13:13     ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-10 13:15       ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-10 14:05 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-10 20:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-10 20:10   ` Ron Natalie

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