16 Jan
2019
16 Jan
'19
10:47 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 23:08, George Michaelson <ggm(a)algebras.org> wrote:
In my opinion, the popularity of a UNIX platform is
tightly tied to
the availability of the platform at university.
That's a very good point. But going too far in that direction may have
been a problem too. My understanding is that Omron's Luna 88K line was
very closely tied to the education market. It ran a customized version of
Mach, so in some sense I suppose they were tied to CMU from the get-go, and
my understanding is that they courted the education market heavily.
Oberlin College was given, outright, a four processor 88K Luna. Today I'm
not sure you could find a running Luna if you wanted to.
-Henry