20 Nov
2017
20 Nov
'17
7:06 a.m.
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Nemo wrote:
Recent commentary on porting led me to read the
article on porting UNIX
to S/370 (https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherports/ibm.pdf) to
support 5ESS development because the existing PDP11s were being
overwhelmed. I confess to not having this read this before and find it
interesting. Any recollections from anyone on the matter. And whatever
happened to it?
I dimly recall one Ian Johnston (then at Bell, but formerly UNSW) doing a
/370 port...
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