> It's always been a bit of a mystery to me why Thompson and Ritchie decided they needed to write a new executive - UNICS - rather than use DECsys.
It was the other way around. They had conceived a clean, simple, yet
powerful, operating system and needed a machine to build it on. A
cast-off PDP-7 happened to be at hand.
Doug
Jay Forrester, who invented core memory, first described it in
a lab notebook 65 years ago today.
(Thanks to the Living Computer Museum, through whose Twitter
feed I learned this tidbit. It's a place--the real museum,
not just the Twitter feed--many on this list might enjoy:
among their aged-but-working computers are a Xerox Star and
a PDP-7.)
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
Greetings,
I have a pdp11/84 and various peripherals available to whomever is willing to take them. I'm in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA.
pdp11/84
RX01
TU80
2 cabs of 2ea RA81
Thanks,
Milo
--
Milo Velimirović
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W
Hello all, recent subscriber to this list...but some might
recognise me.
I'm currently fighting (and mostly succeeding) with getting a pure
4.3BSD-Tahoe install rolling in a VAX simulator (all my tape drives are
currently nonfunctional or I'd fire up a real II or III). Still in the
middle of compiling (I know there are easier ways...but I like the feeling
of doing it purely "from scratch"...feels more historically accurate).
Anyways, while waiting for the compile I ended up with a working 4.1c
installation and I began poking around its source tree (I also did a
little bit of poking at the CSRG discs). I stumbled upon the fact 4.1c
supports the DMC (which SIMH git now emulates!) and I see it's also still
in src/old on some versions of 4.3 (I wonder if it'll still build...).
Looking at the source is immensely confusing...does anyone have any
knowledge/notes from the time period/documentation that will help me with
my little experiment in archaic networking? I might just be tired...but
the berknet configuration doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
(There's also the fact my grasp of C is minimal).
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Speaking of old publications, is there an on-line archive of old ;login:
or EUUG newsletters? I did one for the AUUG newsletters here:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/
but it would be nice to have an archive for the U.S and Europe.
Cheers,
Warren
Doug McIlroy:
> Does anyone know why [Computing Systems] folded?
Arnold Skeeve:
ISTR that they simply ran out of content; they weren't getting
enough submissions to keep it going, and journal production isn't
an inexpensive undertaking.
======
That's what I remember too, though there may also have been
insufficient interest from the members. The front matter
in the last issue suggests that.
Computing Systems was published from Winter 1988 to Fall 1996.
(More years than I'd have guessed, even looking at the physical
journals on my shelf; it was a quarterly.) It would probably
not have lasted much longer no matter what, as the USENIX
community was likely in the forefront of putting papers online
on the World-Wide Web.
USENIX now makes all their conference papers available online,
free to anyone, except that only those registered for a
conference can read them before the conference actually happens.
That's not a bad substitute for a journal, I suppose.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
'skeeve' is my domain name. Robbins is my surname.
Sorry about that; up too late with too many balls
in the air (packing, finishing a tax return, listening
to our provincial election results).
At least I didn't further truncate it to skeev, as
Ken might have done.
UNIX/WORLD started in 1984 and was renamed UnixWorld Magazine: Open
Systems Computing in 1991 and then UnixWorld's Open Computing in 1994
and it folded in 1995.
SunExpert started in 1989 was renamed to Server/Workstatsion Expert in
1999 and it folded in 2001. I always enjoyed Mike OBrien's offbeat
"Ask Mr. Protocol"
> From: Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com>
> There were several, starting I guess in the 80s mostly. The one I remember
> in particular was "Unix Review", but there were a few "journal" type
> magazines that also specialized in Unix-y things (e.g., ";login:" from
> USENIX; still published, I believe), and several associated with particular
> vendors: "SunExpert" was one, if I recall correctly.
>
> Occasionally, Unix and related things showed up in the "mainstream"
> consumer computer press of the time. I can remember in particular an issue
> of "PC Magazine" (I think June of 1993) that ran a lengthy couple of
> articles proving machines from Sun and SGI, in addition to version of Unix
> that ran on PCs (interestingly, Linux was omitted despite really starting
> to capture a lot of the imagination in that space; similarly I don't recall
> any mention of BSD).
>
> Some of these old magazines are definitely blasts from the past.
>
> - Dan C.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Sergey Lapin <slapinid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, all!
> >
> > I've read recently published link to byte article and got an idea....
> > Was there a magazine related to UNIX systems in 70s-80s?
> > I had so much fun reading that Byte issue, even ads (especially ads!)
> > It is so fun...
> >
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