Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!mulga!ausmelb!ejp From: ejp@ausmelb.oz (Esmond Pitt) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: PDP-10 user I/O (really: third-party operating systems) Message-ID: <720@ausmelb.oz> Date: 1 Jun 88 01:21:39 GMT References: <46500018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <5612@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <3327@phri.UUCP> Reply-To: ejp@ausmelb.oz.au (Esmond Pitt) Organization: Austec International Limited, Melbourne Lines: 16 In article <3327@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: > I was going to say "you mean like TENEX instead of OS-TEN, or Unix > instead of RSTS > ... can anybody think of any > "third-party" OSs which replaced the vendor-suplied OS on a given machine to > any significant extent? As a matter of fact, RSTS was originally a third-party operating system itself. It was written by a firm called Evans, Griffiths and Hart (one version) or a university (another version) and in either case DEC bought the system and the personnel. -- Esmond Pitt, Austec International Ltd ...!uunet.UU.NET!munnari!ausmelb!ejp,ejp@ausmelb.oz