Vitek & Alcyon Regulus info (early 68k UNIX)

[Josh Dersch]

Al Kossow wrote:
> On 12/28/09 12:10 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
>
>> It appears to be running an early UNIX variant called Regulus (5.2.2,
>> dated 7/31/86) by a company called Alcyon. I can't find much more
>> information on the 'net other than the fact that it existed.
>
> It is a UNIX clone. Alcyon is also known for producing the C compiler
> used in developing CP/M 68K. I'll check the CHM archives. Another 
> listmember
> sent some Alcyon software, but I've not had time to look at it.
>

Cool, let me know if you do find anything related...

I've imaged the two drives, they're up at 
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/computers/vitek.  Just in the nick of time 
too, drive 0 started flaking out this evening and now fails to come 
ready most of the time.  They're both Quantum ProDrive 40S drives.  
Still no idea if it uses a standard early UNIX filesystem or not, but 
I'm going to spend some time with the images and see what I can figure 
out. 

It's odd that a machine with hardware dated from 1990-91 is built around 
a 68010/68541...

Josh