15 Mar
1998
15 Mar
'98
7:17 a.m.
Hi John --
It's mentioned in some of the literature as proof
of the early
portability
of Unix. Unfortunately, I've never been able to find out much detail
about the port.
<<<John>>>
Yup. The AT&T labs port happened and is mentioned in the
Peter Salus book. However, I think it was internal only.
It's a prime example how Interdata/Perkin-Elmer blew it.
They (AT&T) were fairly impressed with the 8/32, however there was a problem
with the I/O that AT&T wanted resolved in hardware. Interdata/Perkin-Elmer
just said no and lost the opportunity to be the "11/70" system for all the
phone company systems. (They needed the large address space and
32 bit addressing which became real with the Vax.)
Just another way Concurrent missed the Unix boat -- big time.
Bill
btw -- for those collectors out there -- Trenton Computer Festival
the weekend of April 18. http://www.dorsai.org/fair.
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