On 11/5/19 11:59 PM, SPC wrote:
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> Is it AOS stuff saved and available (including source code)
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It was, and may still be in the afs heirarchy
I'm not going to say where, or how complete what was there is
I also seem to remember it still sat on top of an AIX microkernel
and didn't go down to bare metal.
No, that's not true. AOS was basically 4.3BSD Tahoe plus NFS and it ran on bare RT hardware. There was source code available to universities, though as I recall some bits related to memory management were missing and distributed as object files. I gathered, at the time, this was due to some obscure intellectual property reasons. People later tried to Port e.g. 4.4BSD to aging RT hardware and found it challenging because the memory subsystem was so different.
But anyway, there was no hypervisor involved.
- Dan C.