IBM Academic Operating System

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Academic Operating System
Company/ developer	IBM
Programmed in	C
OS family	4.3BSD Unix
Latest stable release	AOS43 / December 22, 1988
Marketing target	Academic institutions
Available programming languages(s)	C
Supported platforms	ROMP
Working state	Historic

Academic Operating System (AOS) was IBM's version of 4.3BSD Unix for the IBM RT. It was offered to academic institutions as an alternative to AIX, the usual RT operating system.

AOS had a few extra features when compared to "vanilla" 4.3BSD, notably NFS, and an almost ANSI C-compliant C compiler.

Apparently, a later version of AOS existed that was derived from 4.3BSD-Reno, but it never saw widespread distribution.

[edit] External links

• AOS FAQ

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