olin_piclist@embedinc.com (Olin Lathrop)
> I wonder how different things would be today if they had been allowed to
> finish.  I think a few scattered pieces of the OSF effort have made their
> way into the main stream.

According to the Wikipedia article, OSF's Unix, "OSF/1", became the basis
for "Tru64 Unix", developed by DEC, now owned by Compaq.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Software_Foundation

> I sortof remember that some of today's time synchronization of nodes on a
> network came from the OSF effort, but overall it was largely a waste, as
> was intended.

NTP (if that's what you're referring to) was developed largely by David
Mills at the University of Delaware (my alma mater), and its roots predate
OSF/1 by a large margin. If there's any connection to OSF/1, I'm not aware
of it.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

> I think things would be very different today if Apollo had embraced
> openness instead of fighting it.  Aegis was a great operating system, and
> the Domain network of 20 years ago was better than any Windows or Unix
> networking today.

Amen!

-- Dave Tweed
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