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From: kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: S1 operating system
Message-ID: <1026@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-May-84 14:33:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 15 14:33:43 1984
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Well...

If you get the information pack or talk to MSI, S1 sounds better.  Reading
the ads gives you the impression that S1 is the operating system that slices
and dices, has a thousand and one uses (now how much would you pay).

Apparently S1 and MSI is the commercial outgrowth of somebody's
doctoral dissertation on portability in operating systems.  They have
actually only got SPL (their own language), C and Pascal 'now'.  Their
ad actually says this, but it is hard to find.  The single unit price
for binary-only S1 is $995 (a bit steep).  They have it running on a
bunch of strange 68000 workstations and I think an iAPX x86 machine
too.

S1 is supposed to be available in a variety of versions to implement various
schedulers, filesystems, etc.  There is (I think) a unix compatibility
library.

Thats what I remember.
-- 
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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