[TUHS] Bitsavers' RT/PC, AIX, AOS, etc. recent additions

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Thu Feb 20 17:18:47 AEST 2020


David Arnold <davida at pobox.com> wrote:

> Sprite, Accent, Spring, Amoeba, VSTa … a lot of the OS projects I
> remember from that era seem to have disappeared.  Only Plan9 seems to
> have really survived (not counting the Mach bits of Darwin).

At some point there was a Sprite CD being sold, which I think I
have somewhere....

Accent only ran on the PERQ; I once described Mach as "Accent on the
VAX". :-)  So, unless you have PERQ hardware or an emulator, it wouldn't
do you much good even if you had the source.

Arnold


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