17 May
1998
17 May
'98
3:53 p.m.
Bill Pechter <pechter(a)shell.monmouth.com> wrote:
Actually there was the 8/32 port done and a 7/32 port
done. The 8/32
was (I think, the AT&T port) the 7/32 was done by Wollongong and later
migrated into Perkin-Elmer's Edition VII.
Another part of that intro I never wrote: I work for The Wollongong
Group, or what's left of it -- it was bought by Attachmate a couple of
years ago, and the office at 1129 San Antonio Road is a lot smaller
than it used to be.
I started working there in 1989. The "Perkin-Ernie" was gone by that
time. None of the old-timers still remaining ever called it an
Interdata in front of me, always "the Perkin-Elmer" or
"Perkin-Ernie".
So I don't know a lot about it, just have the impression that it was
a lot like V7 and worked pretty well 'til near the end.
As I understand the early years of TWG, they got the rights to
commercially develop the Unix port done at the University of
Wollongong and turned it into the Edition VII product, and I think
TWG sold it under the Edition VII name.
Anyone care to clue me in on what I missed?
-Frank McConnell