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Was that the FreeBSD 3.x that the original MTA was running? My recollection was that it wasn't really a product; and that the MTA-2 (after the Cray buyout) was
by linksnapzz 3y ago
Was that the FreeBSD 3.x that the original MTA was running? My recollection was that it wasn't really a product; and that the MTA-2 (after the Cray buyout) was actually sold to a couple of users (Peugeot-Citroen, I think was one...)
- convolvatron 3y agoits wasn't actually freebsd..it was bsd. that os continued past the cray buyout, and as far as I know continued being used even in the XMT era for local management. UCSD was the flagship customer for the MTA2 edit - it was bsd wrapped around a custom microkernel, kind of more like OSX. the original intent was that the MTA be a general purpose machine that would scale down to the desktop. so that provided the user space. there was also a very funny division of labor between the OS, the hardware, and the runtime that caused alot of anguish over the years. one the primary goals for that was extremely lightweight thread management.
- linksnapzz 3y agoThe system at SDSC had a string that said "FreeBSD 3.3" in its boot messages; that's what I recall seeing when working on it. It may have been referencing some code imported from FreeBSD/dragged in elsewhere. This was the original MTA, the one with the "Tera" illuminated logo, atop the "wave" case that resembled a toolshed designed for the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. According to Wikipedia, the MTA-2 was delivered to the Naval Research Labs, probably at Anacostia, not to a French car company as I had thought.