[Info-vax] Alternative _legal_ operating systems for VAX ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-04, chris <chris-nospam at tridac.net> wrote:
>
> Xinu was an educational OS written by Doug Comer at Purdue to teach
> os classes. For the original system, it was assumed that a Vax
> running BSD 4.3  or similar, typically a 750 class machine, did the
> development, and a pdp11 target machine to run the developed code.
>
> It was quite complete for it's time and was interested enough to
> buy the book and later x86 and 68000 versions that ran on pc or sun 3
> hardware. Not really a mainstream OS, whatever Wiki says...
>

There are a number of academic created operating systems that are
interesting in their own right. None run on VAX however. :-)

Here's one I look at every so often:

http://www.helenos.org/

Simon.

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