20 Apr
2018
20 Apr
'18
5:23 a.m.
The recent Empress and earlier PC[67]300 conversations have churned my
failing memory to catch up on the CTIX versions I ran throughout the
1980s.
I (sort of) remember 5.x and 6.x as being the releases we faced. The 5.x
ones were derived from SVR1 IIRC. When 6.x arrived, SVR2+ was the order
of the day, but I don't recall much or anything of SVR3 creeping in.
Certainly no RFS or the like. And Convergent wasn't shy about letting
bits of Berkeley code sneak in when that made sense.
I think the UUCP code got a significant update between 5 and 6. Didn't
the 5.x uucico have the "window > 3 == core dump" bug? By 6.x I recall it
grew 'G' protocol (at least).
Any ex-Convergent hacks on the list who can fill in the blanks?
--lyndon