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From: bobr@zeus.TEK.COM (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Is an Apollo a UNIX box?
Message-ID: <1734@zeus.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 16:58:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 16:58:24 1987
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Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
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Apollo currently is NOT a UNIX box.  It runs an operating system called
AEGIS, and provides libraries to simulate SV and BSD system calls, plus a
lot of hacked up versions of standard programs which attempt to give the
APPEARANCE of a unix system.  The file system, protection strategies,
interprocess support, I/O drivers, administrative support and networking are
substantially different from those of any flavor of UNIX.  Rumors abound
that SR-10 of the Apollo system will be a "true" UNIX, implemented at the
kernel level.  We wait to see.
-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK