[YLUG] Parsable Rack Diagrams

[Pete Fenelon]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:16:57PM +0100, Arthur Clune wrote:
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> On 8 Aug 2007, at 12:58, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
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> >Yet another system that was eaten by HP and never seen again.
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> Sounds for the best to me :)
> 

Most of the senior Apollo software people had a background in Multics. They may
not have built standards-compliant stuff (but back then it was by no
means certain that single-user Unix workstations were going to take over
the world!) but their kit was remarkably well engineered.  They had a
really neat distributed/networked OS and very advanced software
engineering tools built over it back when Unix (outside Bell Labs)
still depended upon wet string, UUCP and line editors ;) -- Unix
was grafted on top of Aegis/DomainOS but the join alway showed ;)

Use an early Apollo next to a Sun-2 or Sun-3 of similar vintage and one
of them feels like a serious piece of kit, the other like something
hacked by a bunch of grad students. Sadly it was the grad-school hack
that survived ;)

pete
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