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From: vandys@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Andrew Valencia(Seattle))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Re: C bug causes double panic
Message-ID: <10770015@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 89 16:08:24 GMT
References: <13866@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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/ hpcupt1:comp.unix.microport / ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) /  9:15 pm  Mar 23, 1989 /
>I find it interesting that noone (that I know of) has REALLY written 
>an operating system based on the 286 features (as apposed to adapting
>an old arch (MS-DOS) or making the arch look like something else
>(Unix)) except Microsoft (OS/2) and Intel itself (iRMX/286).

	Gemini (sp?) Computers offered a B-level secure operating system
as an important part of the Trusted Computer Base software line.  Fully
semaphored MP-capable system... all on the '286.  Mr. Tao, the president,
claimed it was the only OS at that time which used all the protection
features the '286 offered.  I wonder how they're doing....

				Andy