[ So, bets on how long it takes Gordon to shoot us for having this
  conversation on port-sun3 :-) ]

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:55:28 +0100 (MET) 
 Per Andersson <ppan@celsiustech.se> wrote:

 > That's not exactly the story I heard. I thought that they had something
 > they called AIX even then (but, like the i386 or BigIron versions the name
 > was what was most common between them). Then, when the three node setups
 > used to build an early version of the internet (ARPAnet?) the customer
 > demanded real BSD. (I can't remember what the setup was called either).
 > So they ported 4.2, for "academic environments".

As I understood it, AIX ran on the RT before AOS.  AOS was basically
a direct port of 4.3BSD (Reno?).  AOS wasn't really geared as a commercial
product, and you had to be a university to get it.  Eons ago, we had a
pretty buff (for the time :-) RT at Oregon State U... how I miss bismarck.
Everyone wanted that as their workstation; loads better than the ultra-slow
b&w HP X terminals connected to an HP 9000/845 that everyone else had
to use.

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