27 Jan
2023
27 Jan
'23
7:24 p.m.
The decision to end AOS was made sometime in 1H88 and the group of us
that defined the "convergence" was formed. Our work must have been
largely complete when I presented our plans at Berkeley 11/88 at a
workshop that coincided with the Morris worm. I assume we submitted the
Uniforum 89 paper
(https://technologists.com/sauer/Convergence_of_AIX_and_4.3BSD.pdf)
about then, as well.
On 1/27/2023 12:05 PM, Henry Mensch wrote:
This was certainly true before 1986; I joined Project
Athena in April of
1986 and this was quite well established by then.
And it was no real surprise when IBM killed off AOS. AIX was already
"product" and there was no commercially installed base for RT/PC systems
worth mentioning ... (part of my job at the time was to identify and
document the differences)
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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu>
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Subject: [TUHS] Re: Setting up an X Development Environment for Mac OS
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 03:04:27PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 2:54 PM Theodore
Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> wrote:
> [snip]
> otherwise, undergraduates had to go to the right terminal room
> in the right part of campus to connect to the Vax 750 that you were
> assgined to based on the starting character of your last name.
I'm not sure; this would have been in the 1985--1987 time frame.
-snip-
Well, it perhaps would have been more accurate that IBM had decided to that
AIX was the future, and had defunded the AOS group.