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From: kjb@zeke.UUCP (Kevin Buchs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Is an Apollo a UNIX box?
Message-ID: <360@zeke.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 14:28:56 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 24 14:28:56 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 22:38:24 EDT
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in article <1242@ssc-vax.UUCP>, ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E Saddler III) says:
> 
> 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.

Mentor does not modify the Apollo operating system.  The Domain/IX unix
variant is ok, but not nearly as fast as other systems I have used.  I hope
Aegis 10.0 will improve this.

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