[geeks] [rescue] Ultra 5 OS

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 05:41:36PM -0400, Andrew Jones wrote:
>
>Don't forget that Red Hat bought out the very first open source software
>company: Cygnus.
>
>Cygnus was turning a profit on open source before Linux had a mailing list.

IBM had an open source operating system VM/370 before that. VM/370
was based upon CP/67 and CMS which were open source circa 1967, but needed
specialized hardware to run it.

It wasn't until August of 1972 that IBM announced the virtual memory hardware
would be available on all systems, so any new machine would be able to
run it.

Geoff.

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