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.

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: Arrigo Triulzi
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 6:01 PM
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old 386 Unix Versions, was: Re: PCC for the i386

 

On 17 Jul 2019, at 10:10, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

>

> emanuel stiebler <emu@e-bbes.com> wrote:

>

>> On 2019-07-11 18:50, A. P. Garcia wrote:

>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Clem cole <clemc@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

>>

>

> 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.

 

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