19 Oct
2003
19 Oct
'03
8:36 p.m.
--- Dennis Ritchie <dmr(a)plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
Peter Salus is quoted as saying
Yes, perhap Peter was confused by the propaganda coming from the
groups that were disillusioned such as the PDP-10 crowd who did not
want to give up their luxury mainframes for the VAX.
...
When the VAX was ``pre-announced,'' the Unix architects at Bell
Labs had become disillusioned with DEC, they didn't like VMS and
they thought that the VAX had an ``offensively fat instruction
set.'' Anyway, Steve Johnson and Dennis Ritchie were working on
their Unix port to the Interdata. (Which Steve referred to as the
``Intersnail.'')
We were far from disillusioned, either with the company
or the design [...] [...]
A later poster, nao, asked about London and Reiser's memo
about their work on what became 32V (TM-78-1353-4).
This seems to be in the company archives, but not in scanned form.
I've ordered a paper copy, but the mechanism sometimes
is a black hole.
Dennis
Thanks, this will be a great addition to TUHS if it works out.
Ken
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