[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Scott Dorsey]

Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>
>>LOL Always thought HP-UX was a bit weird, but it's the result of buying
>>another unix ws vendor, whose name forget. Like some i-other unix ws
>>vendors in the early days, the overall structure and shell commands 
>>hadn't settled down to a common core...
>
>I believe that you're thinking of Apollo, which had an operating
>system called "Domain/OS" (originally "AEGIS") which was not
>really Unix, though had a Unix "environment".  It was done from
>scratch and more closely resembled Multics in internal
>sturcture.

It wasn't even a little bit Unix, but it was very cool, and it offered a
real distributed environment on workstations years before anyone else even
thought about it.

>Over time, HP ditched the underlying OS and went with their
>System V derivative instead.

It wasn't so much over time, it was kind of abrupt.  There were a few years
where you could buy an 700 with either HP-UX or Domain, but they really started
pushing HP-UX from the beginning.  I don't think anyone at HP had any clue
what Domain really was or how to sell it.
--scott

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