19 May
1998
19 May
'98
4:03 p.m.
Desie Hay wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, 19 May 1998 12:14
Subject: Re: [Rare systems]
Desie Hay wrote:
> I dont think anybody ported unix to the Lisa...well it wasnt a commerical
> thing....
> im not sure on this but if someone knows for sure ill like to hear from
them
>>
>> check out my Lisa web page......
>
>Well, there was a Lisa running Unix at OCC '84 (the last) in Anaheim.
>At least one. At the Apple booth. Since I'd been playing with Xenix
>(at the Radio Shack Computer Center where I did tech support) for well
>over a year by then, I was actually not too impressed -- it was far
>from ready for prime time. But it was definitely Unix. It just wasn't
>commercial. Especially since Tandy Xenix systems cost a fraction and
>actually had support (around Los Angeles, that was mostly me -- with
>some good documentation and a good line to Fort Worth). yes ive seen pictures of Garry Kildor with a Lisa at
his side...
They had a version under development but i almost sure they never released
it.....
Gary Kildall did CP/M, he may have had some relationship with CP/M 68K
for Apple platforms (I don't think so, though he did have some input
into the port to the TRS-80 Model 16), but I seriously doubt that he
had anything to to do with Lisa Unix or the later A/UX for the "real"
Macintoshes. Gary Kildall was _not_ a Unix type, and I can't think of a
way to misspell any name of a Unix god "Garry Kildor".
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_