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IBM Academic Operating System

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Developer
  
IBM

OS family
  
4.3BSD Unix

Marketing target
  
Academic institutions

Written in
  
C

Working state
  
Historic

Latest release
  
AOS43 / December 22, 1988

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, compared to standard 4.3BSD, notably NFS, and an almost ANSI C-compliant C compiler.

A later version of AOS existed that was derived from 4.3BSD-Reno, but it never was widely distributed.

References

IBM Academic Operating System Wikipedia


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