[TUHS] The John Snow's of the UNIX family
Henry Bent
henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 14:47:57 AEST 2019
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 23:08, George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
> In my opinion, the popularity of a UNIX platform is tightly tied to
> the availability of the platform at university.
>
That's a very good point. But going too far in that direction may have
been a problem too. My understanding is that Omron's Luna 88K line was
very closely tied to the education market. It ran a customized version of
Mach, so in some sense I suppose they were tied to CMU from the get-go, and
my understanding is that they courted the education market heavily.
Oberlin College was given, outright, a four processor 88K Luna. Today I'm
not sure you could find a running Luna if you wanted to.
-Henry
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