[TUHS] The John Snow's of the UNIX family

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 9:48 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com wrote:

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> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 23:08, George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
>

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=4501

Claims to be running OpenBSD as of a few months ago. There are also reports
of NetBSD as well. There appear to be maybe 6 different machines listed
here.

Not sure this really disproves your point though.

Warner

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