17 Jul
2019
17 Jul
'19
12:09 p.m.
The only non American one I was aware of came from Brazil, TROPIX.
http://allegro.nce.ufrj.br/tropix/index.html
I’d written a small thing about it here
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2009/06/18/tropix/
I’ve seen mention of something out of Sweden, although nothing concrete on the name.
There is also Демос/DEMOS the BSD code that had been stolen during the cold war, and
ported to various Soviet machines & localized.
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From: Arrigo Triulzi
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 6:01 PM
To: arnold(a)skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs(a)tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old 386 Unix Versions, was: Re: PCC for the i386
On 17 Jul 2019, at 10:10, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
emanuel stiebler <emu(a)e-bbes.com> wrote:
Does anyone have documentation or history for European efforts in the Unix-like operating
systems? For example there was Bull’s Chorus which I seem to recall was based on Mach or a
competing microkernel (it was a very long time ago and I used it for no mare than about
two hours..).
I am rather saddened by the fact that there is so much about all the Unix (and not only
Unix) history of computing in the USA and so very little in Europe. I wouldn’t even know
where to start, to be honest, all I have as a history is the Italian side from my father
and his other mad friends and colleagues in Milan. So little of it is recorded, never mind
written down.
Arrigo
On 2019-07-11 18:50, A. P. Garcia wrote:
Sun had a '386 based system in early 90s-ish called the Road Runner.
I never saw it. It ran SunOS 4.x and I think was discontinued by the
time Solaris 2.x came along.
And, I *do* remember ESIX. We used it for our product at a startup
company I worked for. Initially System V R3 based, IIRC, and then
eventually SVR4; I think we saw an improvement moving to the
BSD fast file system. On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Clem cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Did Sun have anything to do with that? I seem to
recall something
called "Interactive Unix" for the 386, possibly marketed by Sun...
"Interactive Unix" was pretty nice back than.
Anybody remembers ESIX? Still have the document wall for that ...
Cheers