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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledg
Date: 5 Aug 1994 14:22:55 GMT
Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd.
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Parag Patel (parag@netcom.com) wrote:
: gabara@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara) writes:
: > .....        .....       ...... Look at Apollo Domain/OS, which is BSD based,

Sorry Andrej; Domain/OS was *not* BSD based.  It was proprietary with an
artificial bsd4.3 layer that largely pretended to be bsd4.3 for the most
part.  It also had a sys5.3 layer that did exactly the same thing.  To
say "Domain/OS was BSD based" is a misnomer.

: >it does not exist anymore either. Why did HP put HP-UX on the HP/Apollo
: >architecture and not further developed Domain/OS? I'm sure they have a 
: >reason. .....

They're still developing Domain/OS in some sense in that they're coming 
out with patches and fixes to the current (10.4) release. In fact; I
heard that a new version was going to offer scsi-disk support on the DNxxxx
series nodes.  This was never present before and I would consider that
"further development".

Of course; I fully admit that Domain/OS is a dead horse. I just wanted to
clarify a few things.

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hpeyerl@novatel.ca                           |  NovAtel Commnications Ltd.
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