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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 08 2018, @02:50AM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday February 08 2018, @02:50AM (#634647)

    For weirdest we had Apollo workstations at school, I forget what they named their OS, but it was basically Sun Unix but with all the commands renamed... PITA, but they had sweeeet high res (like 1280x1024) 19" color monitors.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday February 09 2018, @01:12PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Friday February 09 2018, @01:12PM (#635484)

    AEGIS and it was weird. Global root networked filesystem. Everything old is new again, eventually. The unix compatibility was skin deep.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday February 09 2018, @01:32PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday February 09 2018, @01:32PM (#635490)

      Yep, that's the one - wouldn't work without a network card and the network was token ring... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain/OS#AEGIS [wikipedia.org]

      but the actual commands themselves were designed to be easier to remember and use than their sometimes cryptic Unix equivalents

      I call complete marketing BS on that line... they were renamed, equally if not more cryptic than their Unix equivalents, and no easier to remember - especially if you were simultaneously operating in MS-DOS, VAX and Unix elsewhere. The easiest to use aspect of the AEGIS commands was that, in practice, they worked almost identically to their Unix equivalents.

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