31 Oct
2019
31 Oct
'19
9:10 p.m.
We (INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.) also did a port of UNIX to
IBM's VM/370 for IBM in the mid 1980's. Also ported UNIX
to Hitachi's mainframe in the late 1980's, although it's not
mentioned here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Systems_Corporation
Heinz
On 10/31/2019 6:51 AM, Tom Lyon wrote:
The Bell Labs 370 port was different, it was based on
running inside
of TSS/370, which was an IBM OS which hardly anyone besides Bells's
ESS group used.
Clem can tell us all about the IBM/Locus port to the 370. And maybe
there was another IBM port??
Much later, Sun ported Solaris to the Hitachi HDS 370 clones (for
Hitachi), and then to Amdahl clones for Amdahl/Fujitsu.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:51 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com
<mailto:arnold@skeeve.com>> wrote:
Hi Tom,
Kudos for making these things available. The links are great reading
as well.
I have the strong impression that this is different from the port
at Bell Labs described in the 1984 BSTJ article; can you confirm?
Warren, can you add the links into the README or whatever that's
in the archive?
Thanks,
Arnold
Tom Lyon <pugs(a)ieee.org <mailto:pugs@ieee.org>> wrote:
--
- Tom
Hi, folks. Tom Lyon here - this UNIX 370 stuff
was recovered by
Stephen at
LCM+L from DECtapes that I've had sitting
around for 40+ years.
You can read all about the Princeton/Amdahl project here:
https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/12/370unixpart1/
If anyone wants to get serious with the code, you'll need
Hercules with
a
VM/370 image as well as a PDP-11 emulator running
V6. There's
not a lot
beyond the kernel, I got the shell working enough
to prove that fork
worked, and then ran out of steam because of the awful communication
problems between the PDP and the IBM. [ But that was my start as a
networking guy ]. I personally haven't had time to do anything
with the
recovered bits.
I've been lurking on TUHS for a while - a special Hi to Ken
Thompson and
Steve Johnson. I owe a lot to each of them. Read
about my summer
at Bell
with the Interdata 8/32 here:
https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/16/belllabspart1/
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 9:04 PM Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org
<mailto:wkt@tuhs.org>> wrote:
> All, the second Unix artifact that I've been waiting to
announce
has
> arrived. This time the LCM+L is announcing
it. It's not the
booting PDP-7.
>
> So, cast your eyes on
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/IBM/370/
Cheers, Warren
P.S Thanks to Stephen Jones for this as well.
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- Tom