29 Aug
2018
29 Aug
'18
11:28 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:41:02AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
I'm curious who was using AOS, which was essentially Tahoe+NFS.
"Frog-marched" is an apt description of the forced migration from SunOS to
Solaris.
AOS was used by MIT's Project Athena. DEC and IBM both contributed $5
million/year in staff or equipment, while MIT contributed $2
million/year. So Athena was funded at $12 million for five years,
which was later extended by another 3 years.
Initially the DEC and IBM equipment was running on BSD 4.3/4.3 Tahoe.
DEC later moved us to Ultrix, and IBM to AIX (sigh).
Sun equipment was later added to the mix (purchased and funded by MIT).
- Ted