Free: Apollo DOMAIN/OS Software Distribution Tapes

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Thu Jun 22 14:23:47 2000

5360's can be buggers. We had one take a nose dive off a ramp. They are
heavy, awkward beasts. I would not be surprised though if it powers up
with few problems when we get around to trying it. They are built like
tanks.

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Will Jennings wrote:

> Actually, Domain/OS is one of Apollo's 3 operating systems... Apollo started
> back when AT&T wasn't licensing UNIX for commercial use, so they had to
> create their own UNIX clone, which was actually better than UNIX. This was
> called Aegis, later changed to be called Domain/OS. Later, when AT&T did
> start licensing UNIX, Apollo was smart enough to know that even though Aegis
> or Domain/OS, depending on what you called it, was better than UNIX, the
> AT&T standard was what mattered to people, so they licensed UNIX, and that
> became Domain/IX, and shortly afterward, HP bought Apollo and killed
> basically everything other than Prism (PA-Risc).
>
> Will J
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M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852

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