[inforoots] ZODIAC Operating System from CDC

[Michael Albaugh]

On 3/16/06, Peter Capek <capek at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>
> I recall a presentation - but at this point none of the details - about a
> project at Berkeley to develop
> something called CALIDOSCOPE - CAL Improved Design Of SCOPE.   The name
> Dave Hussey sticks with me, as that of one of the key designers.   I wonder
> if this evolved into CAL TSS.


 Not in any sense of the word that I would use. CALIDOSCOPE was esentially
SCOPE that  had been "breathed on". CAL TSS was a "clean sheet of paper"

Meanwhile, I heard back from my friend who worked on UBS TOOS (Transaction
Oriented Operating System), but recalls little of it, other than it was
cancelled
when "the new VP decided IBM should do the job". He had no recollection of
Zodiac. I suppose I should be grateful to that VP, because I would probably
never have met him had he stayed at CDC. :-)

   Mike
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