13 Jul
2019
13 Jul
'19
2:36 a.m.
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Warner Losh wrote:
Which model of the PDP-11? I did ports of V6.5
(as I called it)
to the 11/34, 11/23, and 11/60, all of which had their oddities.
And that wouldn't be Eunice, would it? Or was that purely a DEC
product?
Eunice came from Stanford and was sold by the Wollongong group, both as
a standalone thing, or as the TCP/IP subset... I'm unsure if others
licensed it or not (TGV did the TCP part, iirc, but enhanced it way more
than TWG did).
Aha! Thanks for that background info.
I still remember the conversation I had with my boss about running Eunice
on their Vaxen:
Me: "It makes VMS look civilised."
He: "No, it makes it look like Unix."
Me: "That's what I said!"
Dunno what happened afterwards, because I was attracted to a commercial
opportunity which paid much more and needed my Unix skills (otherwise I
would've been supporting ancient COBOL programs).
-- Dave