The October 1984 BSTJ article by Felton, Miller and Milner
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherports/ibm.pdf
Describes an AT&T port of UNIX to System/370 using TSS/370
underpinnings as the "Resident System Supervisor" and used as the 5ESS
switching system development environment.
I also found mention at
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09
chapter 9 of
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ with footnote 96:
Ian Johnstone, who had been the tutor at University of New
South Wales working with Professor John Lions, was one of the
researchers invited to Bell Labs. He managed the completion at
AT&T Bell Labs of the port of Unix to the IBM 370 computer. See
"Unix on Big Iron" by Ian Johnstone and Steve Rosenthal, UNIX
Review, October, 1984, p. 26. Johnstone also led the group that did
the port to the AT&T 2B20A multiprocessor system.
I found
https://ia902801.us.archive.org/3/items/Unix_Review_1984_Oct.pdf/Unix_Revieā¦
"BIG UNIX: The Whys and Wherefores" (pdf p.24), which only offers rationale.
Also:
"IBM's own involvement in Unix can be dated to 1979, when it
assisted Bell Labs in doing its own Unix port to the 370 (to
be used as a build host for the 5ESS switch's software). In
the process, IBM made modifications to the TSS/370 hypervisor
to better support Unix.[12]"
at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX#cite_ref-att-s370-unix_12-0
Is there any other surviving documentation about the system?
Any recall of what branch of AT&T UNIX it was based on?
Thanks!
Phil