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Ah, I still remember some Apollo Workstations used for email (i.e. Pine) at my university. Never got around to seeing the original Domain/OS, as by then the acq
by mhd 9y ago
Ah, I still remember some Apollo Workstations used for email (i.e. Pine) at my university. Never got around to seeing the original Domain/OS, as by then the acquisition by HP was very much complete (and boy, if it weren't for IBM, HP-UX would've looked even worse).
Anyone got to use those boxes in their prime? Supposed to be Unix-ish, but not quite...
- realworldview 9y agoYes. Unix-enough. Why not play, today: https://www.mess.org/howto/apollo https://www.mess.org/howto/apollo ;-)
- mhd 9y agoI'll definitely try that out, thanks.
- fbomb 9y agoI remember these machines fondly. I suppose they were pretty Unixy, but since it was the first *nix system I was ever exposed to, it was hard for me to judge. I do remember they renamed a lot of the command line tools (like fpat instead of grep). After working on some of the console-based systems of the time (VMS, CTOS, PC-DOS), Apollo systems seemed almost magical to me. It had a mouse and I could just click on a file to edit it (it was also my first GUI). We used their Pascal compiler to develop software for a certain government agency. The very day that we flew to DC to install the software on their systems, they let us know that they had changed some of the fundamental requirements. Back to the drawing board...