Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!northstar5!kriso From: kriso@northstar5 (Kris Olander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: BSD Unix on 6150-135? Message-ID: <12540@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 7 Mar 89 01:02:14 GMT References: <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <4320@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: kriso@northstar5 (Kris Olander) Organization: Project NORTHSTAR, Dartmouth College Lines: 35 In article <4320@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes: >In article <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu>, peter@hydrovax writes: >> We have been toying for some time with the idea of running 4.3 BSD on >>our RT, being as RT-AIX is not a useful operating system. The IBM reps >>locally are only aware of a 'Univerisity' package that includes hardware >>and software. They claim that there are hardware changes in the boxes >>running 4.3 BSD. Does anyone know of a commercially available 4.3 OS >>for the RT that do not require hardware changes? > >The product is 4.3BSD, and is called AOS (Academic Operating System) >by IBM. If necessary, I can get you the magic product number to feed >to your sales people. AOS requires no hardware changes to run. We >have it on several 6150's and lots and lots of 6152's. > >Assert your right to run REAL UNIX on the RT!! >-- >Scott Schwartz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope the higher up folks at IBM's Advanced Workstation Development Group noticed the "lots and lots of 6152's" mensioned above. Our 6152 systems running AOS (release 2) here are used extensively. The overall opinion has been 'thumbs up' for this type of UNIX box solution. We have 6152s in professor's and system administrator's offices (the most particular of users). CS/23 students have been programming using X11R3 (emphasis on the R3) in vivid color for the past three months now. Not a bad report card for the ACIS group who developed these beauties. ############################################################## # Kris Olander ---- ---- arpa: kriso@northstar.dartmouth.edu # # ---------------------------------------------------------- #