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On 2014-02-25 3:55, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 2/24/14, 3:10 AM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:

>>> Well, maybe the first discussion wasn't in 1994, but it was quite
>>> some time ago.
>> Should be around there when I took it up for the first time.
>> Last dates on the code are from 1998, but I'm shure it did not work at
>> that moment.
>>
>> It comes around in a regular cycle about every 7 years. :)
>
> oh it was way before 1994..
> believe me. It even came before fairings.

Perhaps I should have said: My first discussion in FreeBSD lists.

Note that I looked at pictures of an office of a citi.umich 
DomainOS-friend of mine, and there was still a Apollo Domain system. A 
bit yellowish, and with the cover removed... ot shure if his actually 
still runs it.

--WjW