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From: ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E Saddler III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Is an Apollo a UNIX box?
Message-ID: <1242@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 12:43:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 12:43:33 1987
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Summary: I don't consider Apollo a UNIX box...

In article <870520222712.854845@HI-MULTICS.ARPA>, Giebelhaus@HI-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 

I'm not a real heavy Apollo user, but I do not think of it as a UNIX
box, rather, an AEGIS box.  

I have run UNIX on an APOLLO workstation, but it was on a system
called MENTOR (a system installed on Apollo h/w to do electronic
design/test).  It (the UNIX shell) seemed real wierd, and was made
to fit/run from AEGIS, which caused a lot of ~standard UNIX files
and utilities to be quite out of the norm.

That's about all I have, what about the rest of y'all?


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