5 Oct
2004
5 Oct
'04
7:41 p.m.
It's not a question of it being lost, but rather making sure it doesn't
become lost. My first order of business is for the product that was the
reason for Manalapan's existence -- VAX System V.
The Manalapan, NJ site, after two mergers, is still today known as UNX
because of it initial charter to port AT&T Unix to VAX. This dates back
to the old DEC days where all sites had a 3 character identifier. I guess
someone was a private pilot and modeled it after airport designations.
Anyway, Manalapan was also frequently used as a hub in a lot of uucp
activity -- just look for UNXA in the path.
Enough history for today.
Pat
acquiring>
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:09:19 -0400
Pat Villani <patv(a)monmouth.com> wrote:
> Don't know about a TCP/IP stack, but I'm sorry to tell you that Ultrix
> is still proprietary and now owned by hp.
>
> The source is in danger of being lost unless I'm successful over the
> next six months. The Manalapan, NJ site where a great deal of Ultrix
> work was done will be closing soon and employees moved to other
location>
> and otherwise. I volunteered to take the old
tape archives and
transfer>
the source
code to CD-ROM for preservation. I don't know if there are
any other copies in Nashua, NH, where the remainder of the work was done.
Pat
While working at the Biomedical Research Institute (Madrid, Spain) I got a
quote from DEC for access to Ultrix source code. As I remember it, it wasn't
that expensive (~1000$ for an academic license) and I mused bout it for some time. My naïvete at the time prevented me
from ordering it
(t> hat
and the availability of BSD sources).
But I'd feel pretty sure that at that price many source licenses must have
been sold. Maybe there are still copies lying around and you can find
someone to send you a copy back.
Sure, it would be nicer to maintain the whole development log and versions.
j
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José R. Valverde
De nada sirve la Inteligencia Artificial cuando falta la Natural
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