11 Mar
2023
11 Mar
'23
12:12 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 01:24:26PM -0800, Warner Losh wrote:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 2:07 PM Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
That was commercially sold as a v7 port (in 1980) according to
Juris Reinfelds in
tuhs/Distributions/Other/Interdata/uow103747.pdf
"Price includes a binary license"
https://archive.org/details/login_october-1980/page/11/mode/2up
Human Computing Resources (HCR), were somewhat related to the University
of Toronto's Dynamic Graphics Project. HCR first sold Xenix and later
UNITY? Richard Miller worked at HCR and was involved with their port to
the NS16032 after the Interdata port
https://archive.org/details/1983-proceedings-unicom-san-diego/page/269/mode…
ISC were selling products based on v6 and PWB in 1977:
"By June he had formed Interactive Systems Corp. in Santa Monica,
Calif., and had a license from Bell Labs to market Unix-based systems.
...
The company calls its enhanced Unix systems Interactive System/One.
Interactive System/Two is coming along. It too is based on a Bell Labs
development. This one, called Programmers Workbench (PWB), uses Unix
and makes it possible to develop software for large scale computers
using minis. Interactive has a license from Bell for PWB, similar to
the one it holds for Unix."
Datamation, November 1977, pg 189
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_datamation_42830601/page/n179/mode/2up
The other really important piece is that the V7
redistribution license was
the first that allowed vendors to ship binaries, and this is all pre-Judge
Green. The vendors started the negotiation for the replacement of the V7
license almost at day one [December 1979 was the first meeting at Ricki's
Hyatt - which I have described earlier].
How did The Wollongong Group sell/send out the Interdata/Harris Unix Level
6 binaries then? Or did they get some kind of special since they bought the
rights from Wollongong University?