2 May
2022
2 May
'22
1:49 a.m.
I don't know where the fellow got his information, but I was told that AIX
started out as AT&T code, but went through not one but two rewrites.
On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 11:55 AM Charles H Sauer (he/him) <
sauer(a)technologists.com> wrote:
I don't recall that particular case, but AIX was
definitely derived from
AT&T code. See
https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2017/03/08/lets-start-at-the-very-beg…
HOWEVER, when the 1983 transition happened and AIX became a primary site
effort (as discussed in the cited reference), there were those new to
the effort and new to Unix that thought they could redefine behaviors
inappropriately.
For example, I recall one person trying to enforce only one root login
at a time. Larry made it quite clear to that person that we were not
going to violate Unix tradition in that manner.
Charlie
On 5/1/2022 1:08 PM, ron minnich wrote:
in terms of rewrites from manuals, while it was
not the first, as I
understand it, AIX was an example of "read the manual, write the
code."
Unlike Coherent, it had lots of cases of things not done quite right.
One standout in my mind was mkdir -p, which would return an error if
the full path existed. oops.
But it was pointed out to me that Condor had all kinds of code to
handle AIX being different from just about everything else.
On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 7:12 AM Kenneth Goodwin
<kennethgoodwin56(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I actually purchased several copies of Coherent when it was first
released and
used it as printer servers for a bunch of inexpensive
Centronics based printers. lpd based server to server transfers. Took the
printing burden off the main systems. Someone came out with a network based
print spooler box (Milan ??) later on which I switched over to after MW
passed into obscurity.
>
>
> On Sun, May 1, 2022, 7:46 AM Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mark Williams Coherent was one I worked with on the PC many years ago.
>>
>>> On May 1, 2022, at 11:34, Andrew Warkentin <andreww591(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>> What was the first "clone" functional Unix (i.e. an OS not
derived
>>> from genetic Unix code but highly compatible with genetic Unix)? Idris
>>> is the earliest such OS of which I am aware (at least AFAIK it's not a
>>> genetic Unix), but was it actually the first? Similarly, which was the
>>> first "outer Unix-like" system (i.e. one with strong Unix
influence
>>> but significantly incompatible with functional Unix)? Off the top of
>>> my head the earliest such system I can think of is Thoth (which
>>> predates Idris by almost 2 years), but again I'm not sure if it was
>>> actually the first.
>>
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