17 Jun
1998
17 Jun
'98
2:10 p.m.
At 09:49 AM 17-06-98 -0700, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
{Eunice was UNIX on top of VMS]
What? That's gross!
Do you mean a binary interpreter, shells and the like, or just
include files and libraries for cross-compilation?
Or did they run a UNIX kernel in user space?
Howabouts did THAT work? It sounds fairly hairy...
As the "resident Eunice expert" :-) I'll try to remember what you got....
It was basically a shared Unix kernel in user space. If your account was
set up properly, you would log into your VMS account and the net result was
a csh prompt. From here, you could play in Unix land (albeit slowly). I
seem to recall that there was integration into VMS land too, so, for
example, running finger in Eunice would give a list of all users logged
into the machine.
It's been a while (not long enough really) so I might be recalling things
badly. I'm hopeful that we've thrown away the tapes/manuals/etc but I'll
take a look just in case...
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