3 Sep
2023
3 Sep
'23
6:40 p.m.
My team at Morgan Stanley had a source license to SunOS in the early ‘90s.
We tried to secure a license to AIX source but never succeeded.
On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 7:26 AM Andrew Warkentin <andreww591(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 9/2/23, Joseph Holsten
<joseph(a)josephholsten.com> wrote:
I’ve been playing around trying to link the
OpenSolaris launch commit to
various pieces in the Unix History Repository, and it’s making me wonder
if
we’ll ever have a chance to see the history of
the systems.
I’m less concerned about HPUX, AIX and SCO’s offerings since I presume
someone has copy inside these companies. But what about A/UX, Irix,
Tru64?
Did these ever get sold with licenses to source
tapes? Are there copies
we
need to preserve in-camera so something can exist
120 years after
creation
or whenever copyright expires?
There are source leaks for quite a few commercial Unices floating
around in various places. These are the ones I'm aware of:
A/UX (0.7, which is complete, and 2.x, which is only the kernel)
AIX 4.1.3 (most of the kernel and some of user space, possibly
complete enough to build)
BSD/OS (various versions, probably complete)
DEC OSF/1 (1.0 and 2.0; these seem reasonably complete)
DYNIX 3.x (several versions, possibly complete enough to build)
DYNIX/PTX (4.x?; possibly complete enough to build)
IRIX 6.5.5 (missing quite a few major packages and nowhere near
complete enough to build)
MIPS RISC/os 4.52 (possibly complete)
SGI System V GL2-W3.7 (for the IRIS 3000 68K machines; probably complete)
SunOS 4.1.3 (seems to be the complete base system)
System V for the 3b2 (several 3.x versions, possibly complete)
System V for the UNIX PC (3.51, possibly complete)
System V/386 4.2 (possibly complete)
ULTRIX-11 (at least 3.1)
ULTRIX-32 (2.0, which has been confirmed to build by someone else, and
4.2, which is also fairly complete)
I haven't looked at any of these in depth, so I'm not completely sure
of the status of any of them except for A/UX and ULTRIX