22 Jan
2020
22 Jan
'20
12:25 a.m.
Chris Hanson writes:
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
I stil have some Domain/OS books here if anyone wants 'em.