1 Oct
2019
1 Oct
'19
10:40 p.m.
I’ve seen it said a couple of places that the DG/UX kernel was an almost complete rewrite
and rather well-done.
Have any details been preserved? There’s not a whole lot out there that I’ve been able to
find about DG/UX or the AViiON workstation series (whether 88K or Intel x86).
-- Chris
PS - I’ve found that my asking around has prompted some people to put things online, so
may as well keep asking in various places. :)
2 Oct
2 Oct
1:50 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 7:00 PM Chris Hanson <cmhanson(a)eschatologist.net>
wrote:
I’ve seen it said a couple of places that the DG/UX
kernel was an almost
complete rewrite and rather well-done.
Indeed - we worked with it at Locus and was one of the simplest kernels to
add things too. The locks were easy to understand and it was well
documented/thought out.
Have any details been preserved? There’s not a whole lot out there that
I’ve been able to find about DG/UX or the AViiON workstation series
(whether 88K or Intel x86).
Never seen it in the wild, sadly. Hope it does appear at some point.
-- Chris
PS - I’ve found that my asking around has prompted some people to put
things online, so may as well keep asking in various places. :)
+1
2:02 p.m.
I have to agree with Clem here. I ported multiple device drivers for custom boards to
DG/UX and it was nicely done at the lower levels.
The documentation was excellent and the field service reps were more than helpful when I
walked into strange corners that didn’t perfectly mesh between SunOS 4.X and DG/UX.
David
On Oct 2, 2019, at 6:50 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 7:00 PM Chris Hanson <cmhanson(a)eschatologist.net
<mailto:cmhanson@eschatologist.net>> wrote:
I’ve seen it said a couple of places that the DG/UX kernel was an almost complete rewrite
and rather well-done.
Indeed - we worked with it at Locus and was one of the simplest kernels to add things
too. The locks were easy to understand and it was well documented/thought out.
Have any details been preserved? There’s not a whole lot out there that I’ve been able to
find about DG/UX or the AViiON workstation series (whether 88K or Intel x86).
Never seen it in the wild, sadly. Hope it does appear at some point.
-- Chris
PS - I’ve found that my asking around has prompted some people to put things online, so
may as well keep asking in various places. :)
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