From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To: Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Bitsavers' RT/PC, AIX, AOS, etc. recent additions
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:24:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7dMtC99uO=EThLup2yqwB6b-Rs7Op5d-tytxkmi-y4dnmxug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <226AD6CE-1B73-43FA-9156-114AAAB4EB80@eschatologist.net>
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Neat! Do you think we will ever be able to recover those bits or is it too
obscure and unobtanium like the rs6000 Mach port?
As an aside I’ve near complete technical references for both of these
platforms (RT, rs6000) and they were quite comprehensive for doing OS
ports. I wondered why there was no free open source OS for them but I now
suspect people just had fear of IBM, some real and some imagined.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 6:17 PM Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2020, at 8:53 PM, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Can you clarify what is Mach in this archive if I have a gap in my
> knowledge? I didn’t know the VRM had any direct relationship to Mach
>
> It didn’t, but CMU used Mach on the RT, including in public clusters[1].
>
> CMU also deployed MacMach on the Macintosh II in public clusters, which
> ran System 6 side-by-side with BSD 4.3.
>
> -- Chris
>
> [1] A “public [computer] cluster” was CMU terminology for computer labs
> accessible to the entire CMU community instead of just being accessible to
> one department or program.
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-18 4:41 Jason Stevens
2020-02-18 4:53 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-02-18 8:01 ` Jason Stevens
2020-02-18 8:04 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-02-18 12:29 ` Jason Stevens
2020-02-18 13:01 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-02-18 11:31 ` Al Kossow
2020-02-20 1:17 ` Chris Hanson
2020-02-20 1:24 ` Kevin Bowling [this message]
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2020-02-18 13:28 Jason Stevens
2020-02-18 13:39 ` Al Kossow
2020-02-20 1:44 ` David Arnold
2020-02-20 2:03 ` Al Kossow
2020-02-20 2:09 ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-20 7:18 ` arnold
2020-02-18 13:41 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-02-17 21:50 Charles H Sauer
2020-02-18 1:30 ` Al Kossow
2020-02-20 1:29 ` Chris Hanson
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