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From: Giebelhaus@HI-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: Is an Apollo a UNIX box?
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Date: Wed, 20-May-87 18:27:00 EDT
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I'm also interested in peoples opinions about whether Apollos are UNIX
boxes.  My presonal opinion is that they are just about as UNIX as any
other vendor except Berkley or Bell depending on which version of UNIX
you mean.

I know of a number of places where the Apollo is different.  Perhapse
the amost annoying is the file descriptors (although they are close
enough to mostly be an annoyance only).  Other vendors have their own
problems.  Everyone has been into the kernals hacking for windows,
networks, and other fun features.

The worst problem the Apollo has is marketing.  When you think of a UNIX
workstation, is the Apollo the first thing that comes to mind?  For many
people it does not come to mind at all.  Why?

Has anyone ever put together a list of difference between Apollo's IX
and bsd at the interface level?   For example, the /dev/kmem does not
have what you might expect in it.  I would love to see such a list.  If
people want to send me the incompatibilities they know of, I would be
happy to compile such a list.