Wow, I'm surprised anybody knows about that box. It was dual-68K (one was
a dedicated I/O processor), and ran Regulus, a real-time Unix clone made
by a company called Alcyon in San Diego. I think we got it out the door in
1985. I wrote a good chunk of the software for it.
We thought it would be cool to have a portable Unix cross-development
system. Regulus was nice -- way ahead of it's time, I guess; Linux is
just starting to target real-time.
Arium is still around, specializing in ICE support for Intel processors:
http://www.arium.com/
Cheers,
Doug
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
>
> Yes, I expect it is. It's the only Unix portable I've seen. Very blue,
> very heavy.
>
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:22:05 -0400 (EDT) "Merle K. Peirce"
> > <at258_at_osfn.org> writes:
> > > We have an Arium machine running Aegis Regulus. Is this a version of
> > ^^^^^
> > Arium?!!? I wonder if it is the same Arium that made ICE's
> > and development stations in the early-to-mid 80's.
> >
> > JUst curious: That wouldn't be a 680x0 machine, would it?
> >
> > I remember an OS that ran on 680x0 platforms that was
> > marketed at about that time called 'Regulus'.
> >
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
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