22 Jun
2000
22 Jun
'00
8:13 p.m.
Wow, I'm surprised anybody knows about that box. It was dual-68K (one was
a dedicated I/O processor), and ran Regulus, a real-time Unix clone made
by a company called Alcyon in San Diego. I think we got it out the door in
1985. I wrote a good chunk of the software for it.
We thought it would be cool to have a portable Unix cross-development
system. Regulus was nice -- way ahead of it's time, I guess; Linux is
just starting to target real-time.
Arium is still around, specializing in ICE support for Intel processors:
http://www.arium.com/
Cheers,
Doug
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
Yes, I expect it is. It's the only Unix portable I've seen. Very blue,
very heavy.
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:22:05 -0400 (EDT)
"Merle K. Peirce"
<at258(a)osfn.org> writes:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
We have an Arium machine running Aegis Regulus.
Is this a version of
^^^^^
Arium?!!? I wonder if it is the same Arium that made ICE's
and development stations in the early-to-mid 80's.
JUst curious: That wouldn't be a 680x0 machine, would it?
I remember an OS that ran on 680x0 platforms that was
marketed at about that time called 'Regulus'.
Jeff
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