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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!quip.eecs.umich.edu!dmuntz From: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: AIX history (was: I hope this wont ignite a major flame w) Date: 11 Aug 1994 01:54:45 GMT Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32c0d5$e38@zip.eecs.umich.edu> References: <311omd$bve@server.st.usm.edu> <9407302107.59@rmkhome.com> <3260t2$cg6@ugle.unit.no> <JKH.94Aug9231205@freefall.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: quip.eecs.umich.edu In article <JKH.94Aug9231205@freefall.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> wrote: >In article <3260t2$cg6@ugle.unit.no> Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes) writes: > > The initial Unix-style OS for the RT-PC was called AOS (Academic > Operating System), I think, and it was indeed of a BSD flavour, or > >Actually, it was called ACIS and it wasn't all that bad! There followed >a short but intense war between the ACIS and AIX camps, a war which AIX >won to our great and lasting sorrow. Actually, it was called ACIS and AOS and was (is) quite excellent as far as BSD ports go. It's probably not worth the effort to do a port since the RT isn't much faster than a slow 386 box, but there are extensive hardware docs availiable (well, around) for it. If one were willing to risk working from the code in /sys/machine (from AOS) a port should be fairly "easy." -Dan