Trix (operating system) 2987291 185700396 2008-01-20T20:20:52Z SmackBot 433328 Date/fix the maintenance tags or gen fixes using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{TOCright}} <!-- Someone should read the 1980 paper cited below and expand this paragraph --> '''TRIX''' is a research network-oriented operating system compatible with [[version 7|UNIX version 7]]. TRIX was developed in the late 1970s at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]'s [[Laboratory for Computer Science]] (LCS) by Professor [[Steve Ward (Computer Scientist)|Steve Ward]] and his research group. TRIX's kernel uses [[remote procedure call]]s (RPC). It was developed with the [[NuMachine]]. == Attempted use by the [[GNU Project]]== [[Richard Stallman]] mentions in the [[GNU Manifesto]], that ''"an initial kernel exists but many more features are needed to emulate Unix."'' He was referring to TRIX's kernel, which TRIX's authors had decided to distribute as [[free software]]. In December 1986, TRIX's kernel was used as a base in the first attempt to create a [[Kernel (computer science)|kernel]] for [[GNU]]'s [[operating system]]. However, the GNU developers eventually decided it was unusable as a starting point. Primarily because: * it only ran on ''"an obscure, expensive [[Motorola 68000|68000]] box"''{{Fact|date=January 2008}} and would therefore have to be [[porting|ported]] to other [[Computer architecture|architectures]] before it could be used, and * it was decided that using the [[Mach kernel|Mach]] microkernel as a base for a server based operating system was a better operating system design for GNU. This second attempt evolved into the [[GNU Hurd]]. == See also == {{portal|Free software|Free Software Portal Logo.svg}} * [[GNU]] * [[GNU Hurd]] * [[GNU Mach]] * [[Mach kernel|Mach]] * [[Comparison of kernels]] == References == * Ward, S.A. TRIX: a Network-oriented Operating System. COMPCON, Spring 1980, pp. 344-349. * [http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html Hurd history] on the [http://www.gnu.org GNU Project] web site. [[Category:Monolithic kernels]] [[Category:Unix variants]] [[Category:Free system software]] {{unix-stub}} [[es:TRIX]]