Aegis operating system

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Aegis was a distributed, real-time operating system created by Apollo Computer for its Domain series of workstations, notable for its network-centric design and advanced development environment in the 1980s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf distributed operating system
network operating system
real-time operating system
countryOfOrigin United States of America
developer Apollo Computer NERFINISHED
feature C programming environment
Fortran programming environment
Pascal programming environment
UNIX interoperability tools
advanced software development environment
command-line interface
distributed computing support
graphical user interface support
integrated network file system
integrated source code management tools
location-transparent resource access
network management tools
performance monitoring tools
remote procedure call mechanisms
symbolic debugger
transparent remote file access
window system support
influenced Domain/OS NERFINISHED
influencedBy UNIX NERFINISHED
kernelType monolithic kernel
networkModel network-centric design
notableFor early adoption of distributed file services
rich integrated development environment
tight integration with Apollo Domain network
operatingSystemFamily Domain/OS family
platform Motorola 68000 architecture NERFINISHED
Motorola 68010 architecture NERFINISHED
Motorola 68020 architecture NERFINISHED
successor Domain/OS NERFINISHED
supports demand paging
memory protection
multiuser operation
preemptive multitasking
real-time scheduling
timesharing
virtual memory
targetIndustry computer-aided design
scientific computing
targetUser engineering workstations users
software developers
timePeriod 1980s
usedOn Apollo DN series workstations NERFINISHED
Apollo Domain workstations NERFINISHED

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Domain/OS basedOn Aegis operating system
Apollo Computer developed Aegis operating system