[geeks] Oldest OS Still Developed

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 @ 16:08 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 04:30:50PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > > Yes, and I have the manuals. 8-)
> > You have manuals for the AP-101 systems?
> > Which generation?  1972 or 1984?
> 
> I haven't looked at that file yet.  Will check it out this evening.
> 
> > > It appears that a lot of the ISS is run by a UNIX of some sort running
> > > on a Thinkpad.
> > You'd never catch me on it if it were.
> > Somehow I doubt that.
> 
> The ISS master console shows screenshots of a Motif UI, and one of the
> chapters talks about resetting the Thinkpad BIOS.

Sounds more like a front-end.

You said "ISS is run by", which would imply it runs ventillation, air
cleaning, and that sort of thing.

A laptop?

A front-end that isn't critical, sure, but not running the station.

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