[net.micro] S1 operating System

ddb@mrvax.DEC (05/11/84)

Does anybody have any real information about the S1 operating system?

It's been advertised recently in computerworld under the headline
"Unix is a dinosaur; CP/M and MS-DOS are toys" (well, they're at least
half right).  It claims to do everything for everybody, and their
brochure claims that they already have it running on Z80, 8080, 8086/88,
68000, and will soon have it for 80286,16032 and I forget what else.
They also claim C, PASCAL, MODULA-2, etc. compilers, with ADA and LISP
coming.

Obviously, this sounds much too good to be true.  Anybody have any 
first-hand experience with it?  Oh, it's from Multi Solutions Inc,
in New Jersey.

		-- David Dyer-Bennet
		-- ...decwrl!mrvax!ddb

kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) (05/15/84)

Well...

If you get the information pack or talk to MSI, S1 sounds better.  Reading
the ads gives you the impression that S1 is the operating system that slices
and dices, has a thousand and one uses (now how much would you pay).

Apparently S1 and MSI is the commercial outgrowth of somebody's
doctoral dissertation on portability in operating systems.  They have
actually only got SPL (their own language), C and Pascal 'now'.  Their
ad actually says this, but it is hard to find.  The single unit price
for binary-only S1 is $995 (a bit steep).  They have it running on a
bunch of strange 68000 workstations and I think an iAPX x86 machine
too.

S1 is supposed to be available in a variety of versions to implement various
schedulers, filesystems, etc.  There is (I think) a unix compatibility
library.

Thats what I remember.
-- 
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
{uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!kurt

jgw1@ihuxs.UUCP (J. Whelan) (08/23/84)

I missed the debate on the S1 operating system.  Has
anyone used it or knows of someone who has.  What machine(s)
has it been used on?  What is you overall opinion of it?
If there is enough interest I will post the results.

Please respond to:  ihuxs!jgw1

jgw1@ihuxs.UUCP (J. Whelan) (09/03/84)

Thanks to all who responded on the S1 Operating System.
Sorry to have rehashed an old subject, but thanks for your patience.