[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Dan Cross]

In article <unhuvu$1n15b$1 at dont-email.me>, chrisq  <devzero at nospam.com> wrote:
>On 1/8/24 17:25, Dan Cross wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Yes, that was it.
>
>> Over time, HP ditched the underlying OS and went with their
>> System V derivative instead.
>
>I think it was HP-Ux 10 or so, and even that seemed quite weird
>in terms of the command set. That was on one of the HP tech
>computers, 68030 cpu, from memory, with all the peripherals
>linked by hpib cables. Very capable little machines though, for
>instrument control work.

HP-UX 10.0 was around 1995; they merged the server and
workstation versions of the OS.  They'd been running on System V
for a long while by that point, though; I didn't realize it, but
apparently the first version in 1984 was based on System III.

Poor suckers.  They switched to System V (I'm guessing SVR3) in
1985.

>> An interesting tie-in to DEC was, when HP acquited Compaq, and
>> thus the DEC IP rights, whether they would wind down HP-UX and
>> go with Tru64 as their Unix offering (or the other way around).
>> Too bad that HP-UX is the one still standing.  :-(
>
>Shame they backed the wrong horse. Tru64 may have been a bit
>unpolished round the edges, but a far more straightforward
>os to work with than Hp-Ux. Just needed a bit more work to
>finish the job...

Yes.  Tru64 was one of the best of the commerical Unixes.  I
wish it had had a better run.

	- Dan C.