11 Jul
2014
11 Jul
'14
8:47 a.m.
On Jul 10, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Ken Seefried <seefriek at gmail.com> wrote:
The company I worked for at the time hacked our TCSEC
B-level technology
into that mess so that Apple could extend the "see...we got POSIX" line to
"see, we got Orange Book evaluated" so they could sell to military &
intelligence customers. So lot's of crawling around in the kernel.
Not pretty. But enough sold to justify the contract.
This was basically my *FIRST* real exposure to UNIX (about the same time I started with
Linux 0.12). If anything it was worst thank you make it sound. A little over a year
later one of the contractors working at the site figured out how to replace A/UX with
System 7. The Hardware we were running on was seriously cool though, the system I used
was a Mac IIfx, and all the systems were in a desk-side enclosure that had removable hard
drives so that you could lock them in a safe when not using it, and a tape drive for
backing it up. I don't remember ever using the tape drive, and realistically it was
used as office machine for WordPerfect and MacDraw II. The System, while still running
A/UX was also my first exposure to SQL, as they had Oracle installed.
Realistically it was a very influential machine for me, as what I do today, had its
beginnings with that machine, and A/UX. Prior to it, I many worked with systems like the
VIC-20, MS-DOS, as well as Minicomputers and Mainframes.
Zane