12 Aug
1997
12 Aug
'97
5:57 a.m.
I saw a thing on SCO's webpage about submitting a success story to win a
prize. I decided it was time for some shameless plugging!
Look what I got in return... He almost gets the point...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:23:52 -0400
From: Jim Sullivan <jim(a)sco.COM>
To: dseagrav(a)tek-star.net
Subject: Re: Success Story
Well this came in through a strange interface....
At 05:20 PM 8/11/97 MDT, you wrote:
Name: Daniel Seagraves
Telephone: 692-5893
Customer's Environment: I have a PDP-11. I bet it would make for some
pretty decent advertising if you'd give me the
source to compile Unix on it... :)
Well, since much of the early UNIX development was done on PDP11s, a version
of UNIX could possilbe be found for it, but it's probably very old and
out of date. Of note, my first job in the industry was with a company
called Human Computing Resources (later HCR, later merged with SCO).
HCR was one of the pioneers in the UNIX industry and was the provider of
UNIX ports and layered implementations of UNIX across many platforms,
including PDP11s. PDP11/Unity was one of our products. Of course, we
don't sell it anymore and haven't sold it for over a decade.
I seriously doubt that the current UNIX source code could easily port
to the PDP11 environment.
The Economics: To be determined.
Probably not worth it...
System Configuration: 2 systems:
PDP-11/44 Unknown RAM, RA81 475MB 12" harddisk
32 terminal ports, FPP, misc. goodies.
PDP-11/23+ 1 meg RAM, KDF11-B CPU, No harddisk, 2
RX02 8" Floppy drives.
Well, loading UNIX, as it exists today, into 1M, may be impossible.
Good Luck, but I don't think I can help you.
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