[Info-vax] CPU Refresher for Programmers

[Chris Scheers]

Rich Alderson wrote:
> IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     [regarding Data General systems]
> 
>> I think the OS was Aviion? Didn't that morph into the OS behind EMC's storage
>> frames?
> 
> AViiON ("NOVA ii" spelled backwards and sideways) was DG's 1980s hardware line,
> originally based on the Motorola 88000 RISC family and later moved onto X86.
> The OS was DG/UX to start, with Windows NT on the low-end Intel processor based
> units.
> 
> The OS used on the older Eclipse/MV family was AOS/V.  AFAIK, this was the IP
> which EMC bought DG for.

Clarification:  The main Eclipse/MV OSes were AOS/VS and AOS/VS II. 
There were a couple of others, but. from what I have seen, 90%+ of sites 
ran an AOS/VS variant.

EMC bought DG for the CLARiiON storage products.

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