3 Feb
2015
3 Feb
'15
11:59 a.m.
From: Liam Proven
Well, as of last month, it's now FOSS.
Ah! If we hadn't lost him (sigh), DMR could now look at the code itself* to
see if they ripped off Unix... :-)
Love this line from the intro to the documentation: "COHERENT is what UNIX
used to be." Ain't dat de troof.
Noel
* https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.folklore.computers/-/5B41Uym6d4QJ
3 Feb
3 Feb
3:41 p.m.
On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at
mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
I?m mildly disappointed that the 8086 version wasn?t in this archive? I?m not
sure what the lift would be to recreate it. I?m also not sure it would be worth it
for my DEC Rainbow which just has serial port connectivity to the world?
Warner
From: Liam Proven
Well, as of last month, it's now FOSS.
Ah! If we hadn't lost him (sigh), DMR could now look at the code itself* to
see if they ripped off Unix... :-)
Love this line from the intro to the documentation: "COHERENT is what UNIX
used to be." Ain't dat de troof.
Noel
* https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.folklore.computers/-/5B41Uym6d4QJ 
3:54 p.m.
On Feb 3, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Warner Losh <imp at
bsdimp.com> wrote:
I?m mildly disappointed that the 8086 version wasn?t in this archive? I?m not
sure what the lift would be to recreate it. I?m also not sure it would be worth it
for my DEC Rainbow which just has serial port connectivity to the world?
I dunno, getting mail and uucp connectivity running from my rainbow to one of the pdp11s
sounds like a lot of fun...
Warner
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