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From: jac@penguin.UUCP (James Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Uniflex OS,  Force Computers?
Summary: UniFLEX
Keywords: happy?
Message-ID: <539@penguin.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 13:27:31 GMT
References: <180@intek01.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.os.misc
Organization: Penguin Software Service / Tulsa, Ok
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In article <180@intek01.UUCP>, mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
> Any body have experience with these?  Force makes real-time VME-based
> single-board machines running Uniflex, and we're considering them

UniFLEX operating system was written (and copyrighted) by Technical Systems
Consultants, currently of Chapel Hill, N.C. They started with a single user
o/s called FLEX that was brought out back around 1976. It ran on Southwest
Technical Products (Motorola) 6800's. They incorporated a subset of UNIX into
it, and changed its name to UniFLEX(tm) in about 1978. It is currently in
revision 4.14 +/-, and is a pretty solid o/s. As far as I know, they were
running on several different makes of cpu, but were still pretty much tied
to the Motorola chipset. I think they are running on the 68030 now.

For a new user, their o/s is A LOT EASIER to learn. They don't have the
standard "cd, pwd, ls" however, they tend to lean toward their early FLEX
systems by using "chd, path, dir". I still support a couple of their systems
that were installed back in '78. {Sometimes I wish they would break more
often ;-)}.

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