12 Mar
2000
12 Mar
'00
8:27 a.m.
The PPC machines were thrown in the large dumpster just outside the loading
dock
in Boca.
The uK was one of those ideas that looked great on paper, but practically
never
made sense. There were dozens of major issues which made OS24PPC still
born.
--Steve
At 12:47 PM 3/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
Jeffrey S. Worley
- Steve Mastrianni
Operating systems I would like to know or know
better:
the algorithm used to calculate the key?), AIX, OS/2 for Power PC, Ultrix.
FYI, OS/2 on PPC was never publicly released. IBM had a whole warehouse
full of machines ready for it <oops>, don't know what happened to the
machines.
BTW, the coolist setup I ever saw along those lines was one of the first
ThinkPads at FOSE trade show in DC, probably in mid '93. It was running
AIX and OS/2 on top a Microkernel. There was some talk about this in
magazines such as Byte, but sadly it was scrapped. The plan was to have it
so that you could run basically any OS on top of the microkernel.
Zane
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