[cap-talk] RATS

[Charles Landau]

At 5:52 PM -0400 7/11/07, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>I'ld be interested to know more about what happened with RATS and NTLSS.
>I speculate that they were initially built for larger or non-commodity
>machines and never transitioned to the 386. Was there ever an effort
>made to mainstream these operating systems?

Regarding RATS:
It was built for the DEC PDP 11/45, which was about as small and 
commodity as machines got in 1974. There was never the slightest 
thought to sharing, let alone commercialization, and it was forgotten 
before the x86 came along. There simply wasn't enough development 
effort put into RATS to consider it a serious system.