[TUHS] Apollo Domain/OS

Jon Steinhart jon at fourwinds.com
Wed Jan 22 10:25:05 AEST 2020


Chris Hanson writes:
> My understanding is that there’s a direct line from MULTICS to Prime to Apollo,
> in that Apollo was founded by former Prime folks who took their philosophy with them.
>
> Apollo’s operating system (Aegis, Domain, Domain/OS) had a lot of good and
> interesting ideas and was quite influential despite the relatively small
> number of people who used it. A lot of what we take for granted today in
> distributed computing came via Apollo more than anywhere else, as Apollo
> users and alumni took what they learned to other systems.
>
>   — Chris

I stil have some Domain/OS books here if anyone wants 'em.


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