{Eunice was UNIX on top of VMS] What? That's gross! Do you mean a binary interpreter, shells and the like, or just include files and libraries for cross-compilation? Or did they run a UNIX kernel in user space? Howabouts did THAT work? It sounds fairly hairy... -------

At 09:49 AM 17-06-98 -0700, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote: As the "resident Eunice expert" :-) I'll try to remember what you got.... It was basically a shared Unix kernel in user space. If your account was set up properly, you would log into your VMS account and the net result was a csh prompt. From here, you could play in Unix land (albeit slowly). I seem to recall that there was integration into VMS land too, so, for example, running finger in Eunice would give a list of all users logged into the machine. It's been a while (not long enough really) so I might be recalling things badly. I'm hopeful that we've thrown away the tapes/manuals/etc but I'll take a look just in case... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, John Foust wrote: What would be the point of adding bugs to the operating system that you switch to when you're fed up with Win95 crashes? But you're right. If MS was smart they'd dump the Win95/NT kernal and give in to Linux. The Win95 GUI would be a nice desktop for Linux, except ApplixWare beat them to it already :) Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever onward. September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details! [Last web page update: 06/11/98]