On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> At 11:41 -0700 10/24/96, Andy Beals wrote:
> >Gee, Erik, you forgot Apollo.
> 
> Apollo I remember well, but despite their protestations, they were not UNIX
> boxes - not even close. Their shtick was "Domain". In the end, despite its
> apparently wonderful distributed computing facilities, this killed them
> (and the carcass was eaten by HP). I remember friends working on their
> System Release 10, which had as its motto and guiding principle: "JLRU -
> Just Like Real UNIX" (not).
> 
> There were other OS's around at that time, too: UNOS (CRDS's best guess as
> to what UNIX was, without AT&T license or source code; kinda like Linux),
> Pick, "S-1" (what a marketing fantasy that vaporware was!), Xenix (it was
> V7 once, but Microslop put its own special smell on everything and didn't
> track the rest of the world at all, fixed no bugs, and ultimately gave that
> stinking pile to SCO; kinda like how IBM created AIX...), oh, and
> Convergent Technologies! I was trying to remember their name last night.
> They had some wierd OS of their own. What ever happened to them?

Their carcass was eaten by -- hmmm.  It escapes me at this time... I want 
to say NCR, but that's not it... I can't remember.  Damn. :-)

> 
> but enough reminiscing...
> 
> 	Erik
> 
> 
> 

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