OOPs AT&Ts

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu Feb 19 17:27:14 1998

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Captain Napalm wrote:

> I don't recall what they were, but that's okay. Several months ago I
> managed to pick up two HP Apollos (3xx series) for free. All I'm doing now
> is waiting on the OS (which a friend has, he just has to break root 8-)

Then you're going to be waiting a -loong- time. There is no real way to
break root on DomainOS. If you haven't got media, you're basically just
screwed. It's also highly likely that vital parts of the OS exist on other
machines that were once connected to the machine your friend has but hve
long since ceased to exist. This often includes (but is not limited to)
the root account---DomainOS bears only the slightest resemblance to UNIX
at the user level and certainly none at all when you get down to the
mechanics of things.

Besides, the only HP machines (proper) to run DomainOS were the 4xx
series machines. The 3xx machines ran something else. HP-UX, probably.

There were the Apollo DSP and DN series machines, and the HP/Apollo 4xxx
machines. These were, IIRC, the only machines to run DomainOS (formerly
called AEGIS).

ok
r.
Received on Thu Feb 19 1998 - 17:27:14 GMT