Talk:Domain/OS

Have updated this page with extra details dredged from memory. Will keep doing so from time to time. It may be that I have documentation still stashed away somewhere which would help.

Two comments:

- There really should be two separate pages, one for Aegis and one for Domain/OS, but there isn't enough info for that right now.

- Proper info really requires input from several people, especially from the US (I'm from the UK, so my perspective may not be a typical one)

User:AlexSwanson 21 July 2005

A stand alone station could be operated provided it had a system disk and a tape drive. I used mine for 6 months before connecting to a Token Ring. Diskless ones needed an admin machine on a Domain Token Ring. The Aegis/Domain OS did not run over ethernet, but only used ether to connect to the outside world. All hardware was based on the M68K, except for the DN10k. The user and admin manuals were written by illiterate imbeciles who had discovered how to cut-and-paste from randomly selected Unix man pages. TR speeds were claimed to be 1MB/s, the same as thin-wire. I tested several rings and got no better than 50kB/s.203.213.114.48 (talk) 23:48, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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Yes Domain/OS is a dinosaur, but it's not quite extinct.

I'm tempted to add some information about the Domain/OS system I still use at work every day. An HP/Apollo 433 running Domain/OS 10.4 is the workstation controlling an LTX/Trillium VLSI tester.

It fits the description given in the article - basically, one application is run to control the test equipment. It's programmed in Pascal and the disk space is pretty limited Pavium 12:22, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

The COBRA and DCE submissions were made prior to the HP acquisition and were a joint submission of DEC and Apollo. The joke my DEC salesman told at the time of the HP acquisition was that when HP bought Apollo, they set network computing back a decade. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.131.214.225 (talk) 01:31, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

NCS survives as ncacn_http
The article makes a point about nc surviving, but does not define it.

Is NCS "network card system" or something along those lines? Varlaam (talk) 20:14, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
I propose to merge DM (windowing system) into Domain/OS. There is not a lot of information with proper citations on the DM article, and I feel that any information with adequate citations could be added to the main Domain/OS article without making it too long. It will mean that more information relating to the OS is in one place. Vt320 (talk) 20:15, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Who went to Microsoft?
Part of this article reads "One of the original developers went to work for Microsoft, where he developed MSRPC as a fairly compatible clone...". The article does not state WHO went to work for Microsoft.

I have seen in other articles when this has happened that a superscript "WHO?" appears after the word (in this case the word developers?) with a link. I don't know how to add this so could someone with more edit knowledge do it so that (eventually) someone will add the name of the person? 86.30.253.182 (talk) 07:29, 4 October 2022 (UTC)