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
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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.


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Esmond Pitt, Austec International Ltd
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