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From: Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Apollo Domain/OS
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:52:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DEE23024-04E3-4A37-AD17-41EC725B8B0A@eschatologist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4o-qPs9JskMCmca+c9M3pqcmL3kPcANQ4Jb=cwJkVkSg@mail.gmail.com>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-21 22:02 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 [this message]
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
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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