What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2073
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OEM .. original equipment manufacture ... however it was also sometimes used as in OEM ... other equipment manufacture with somewhat similar sense as PCM ... plug compatible manufacture in the tales about...
Instead of looking at plans A & B, there is always plan C. Don't hack up someone else's code, roll your own, but keep the API & userland UNIX compatable. That has been done countless of times, and pretty successfully (eg: Linux).
You make what I see as a Good Thing, and one of the greatest acheivements of the...
That sounds more like a political decision to me.
UNIX has traditionally shipped with sources. That remains the case with BSD derivatives. AFAIK you can get hold of the source for the main commerical UNIXen too. In the case of UNIX the code-forking has happened because the UNIX API and model is highly adaptable and the source has been fairly easy for the end-user to get hold of (compared to Windows NT for example).
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No, I suspect that was down to small teams chasing different goals in parallel.
No, it's good sense. Cray-C90s are very different beasts from an RS-6000 workstation. UNIX keeps the user visible model the same, but lets the guts be close to the metal.
No chance of that happening. UNIX has it's unique kind of Jam precisely because it has not been a single-sourced product for such a long time. :)
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A machine that sports 144 SPARC processors is a *very* different beast from a PDP-11. The OSes should be very different.
Cheers, Rupert
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2074
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