cs2531ap@triton.unm.edu (Student Class Account) (02/13/91)
Does anybody know about the Hermes Operating System? It was writing in modula-2 about 1983. Also is there any other operating systems that have been writing in modula-2.
grant@RAMSEY.CS.LAURENTIAN.CA ("Grant R. Guenther") (02/13/91)
> Does anybody know about the Hermes Operating System? It was writing in > modula-2 about 1983. Also is there any other operating systems that have > been writing in modula-2. The LUMOS-2 system was written in 1986 for the Stride-440 (a 68000 based machine). It still runs, but I don't think you can get Stride-440's anymore. There was a short article in the Journal of Pascal, Ada and Modula-2 (now also defunct) in November 1987. Send me mail if you want more information. Grant Guenther, grant@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca Math & C.S., Laurentian U., Sudbury, Canada
rschnapp@pnet12.rfengr.com (Russell Schnapp) (02/14/91)
I know something about Hermes. I worked at Burroughs' San Diego Research Center, and participated in its design, to a limited degree. When Burroughs closed SDRC in 1984, Hermes (and some of our Multibus-enhanced Liliths) were given to, I believe, U. Virginia. I suspect that Hermes is quite dead by now. It was a message-passing, real-time operating system, implemented 99.9% in Modula-2. There was a heavily edited article about it in the August 1984 issue of BYTE magazine. What else would you like to know? ...Russ UUCP: ucsd!serene!pnet12!rschnapp ARPA: crash!pnet12!rschnapp@nosc.mil INET: rschnapp@pnet12.cts.com
cs2531ap@HYDRA.UNM.EDU (Student Class Account) (02/14/91)
Please send more infomation about this operating system. to me. I have heared some about this computer in Byte Mag.
grant@RAMSEY.CS.LAURENTIAN.CA ("Grant R. Guenther") (02/14/91)
> Please send more infomation about this operating system. to me. > I have heared some about this computer in Byte Mag. I presume that you are referring to LUMOS-2 (since your message referenced my posting). I normally distribute a printed version of the source code to interested folk. If you would like a copy (it contains about 700 pages of M2 code ...) please send me a name and address. Grant Guenther grant@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) (02/14/91)
The IBM Plant at Rochester Minnesota used Modula-2 to write the AS/400 Operating System. This info is from a friend of mine who works there, and also from the person that came to campus to recruit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Draper In times like these it is helpful to cps.msu.edu remember that there have always draper@cps.msu.edu been times like these. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis) (02/14/91)
There is Medos-2, which originally had been implemented for the Lilith computer and later been ported to the Ceres workstation. Since this was the OS that had been implemented in the same institute as Lilith and Modula-2 it was the OS that came with the Lilith workstation. Everything, including device drivers, had been implemented in Modula-2. Another example is Kronos, a multiuser operating system implemented for a machine similar to the Lilith by an institute at the Novosibirsk branch of the Sowjet Academy of Sciences. Marc-Michael Brandis Computer Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland email: brandis@inf.ethz.ch
yeung@LCLARK.BITNET (02/15/91)
I am interested in information on the LUMOS operating system, especially on the availability of obtaining source. Thank you. Woodrow Yeung yeung@reed