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Domain/OS Design Principles (1989) [pdf]

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55 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 26 Mar 21 15:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
1. protomyth ◴[26 Mar 21 17:38 UTC] No.26594803[source]▶
This is one of the old OSes that I wish had been open sourced. I would really like to see the Pascal source code, and it would be neat to see something that wasn't a UNIX.
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2. skissane ◴[26 Mar 21 20:40 UTC] No.26596671[source]▶
> This is one of the old OSes that I wish had been open sourced

Maybe one of these days, someone will convince the powers-that-be at HPE to do it. It has basically zero remaining commercial value. Open sourcing it would have PR benefits for HPE.

3. eschaton ◴[27 Mar 21 02:00 UTC] No.26599178[source]▶
One could always look at the Domain Engineering manuals and the data structures described therein and the rest of the APIs and docs and reimplement it. That’s basically what Comer did with Xinu, Tanenbaum did with Minix, Linus did with Linux, etc., just with Unix—and it’s mostly how Aegis (the original name for Domain/OS) came about too.
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4. protomyth ◴[27 Mar 21 13:30 UTC] No.26602153[source]▶
Not that I have the ability to do that, but where are these Domain Engineering manuals?