There was also an extensive port of the Software Tools to VMS, done by
Joe Sventek at LBNL. Included at the key tools, the shell, pipes,
everything. Felt completely like Unix.
Deborah
On 7/12/19 10:00 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
There were a number of them. As others have
meantioned, the TGV folks
did one, there were a number of tools from DECUS, and even DEC
actually released more and more UNIX into VMS themselves. I used to
carry a mag tape with vi, the shell and few basic tools that allowed
me to edit things on VMS if I had to deal with it. The biggest issue
was TCP/IP, since DECnet was the only networking for a such a long
time from DEC.
Stan Smith and I wrote the original VAX IP/TCP support for Tektronix
in 1979, in BLISS and some small amount of VAX assembler. My friends
(former coworkers) @ CMU took this back in and enhanced it (the CMU
folks did a huge amount of work on the mail interface). IIRC I sent
the tape to Danny Klein, but it might have been someone else.
I have the code from the CMU's update of our work on 9-track tape, but
I think it eventually also may have gone out on a DECUS tape. But I
do know that this code base would make its way to DEC, where CJ and
Wayne would take it to become the code base that started OpenVMS's
version [CJ once told me he was impressed at how little they had to
rewrite it, mostly removing some Vaxism's - Stan and I were not
worried about portability, we just wanted something to talk correctly
to the UNIX V7 TCP from 3COM (UNET) and the TCP we had written from
the Cyber NOS].
Clem
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:56 PM Nigel Williams
<nw(a)retrocomputingtasmania.com <mailto:nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com>>
wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, ron(a)ronnatalie.com
<mailto:ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> > (PDP-11, 386) and also there “UNIX
running under VMS” product.
Was there only three UNIX on VMS (or under...) options?
Eunice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_(software)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_%28software%29>
"phi"-nix: A Unix Emulator for VAX/VMS:
https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/101549/TR82-08.pdf?seque…
ISC's IS/1-WB Work Bench for VMS (UNIX Tools only?)