30 Mar
2020
30 Mar
'20
3:38 p.m.
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Clem Cole wrote:
...
kernel support to?handle?select(2) properly).? I
remember talking to Sam (arguing
with him most probably) about it one night before it was fully created.? ?Iwant
to say, he had worked on something similar at the firm he was at (the firm
name I now forget -- si-mumble -- they were in Mt. View) before he joined
CRSG.? I don't remember now the issues I had, but I do remember it was a bit
of mess to support the way the AP hardware assumed it could do DMA on the
UBA[2]
From my notes:
After graduating, Leffler got a job in the Silicon Valley
at Sytek, a small firm in Sunnyvale.
% CITE: archives/csrg-archives/disk1/mnt/2.79/usenet/netdir/sites/sytek
They used a PDP 11/45 and moved to a VAX 11/750 running VM/UNIX
with four 300 baud ACU's (Automatic Call Units aka ``modems``) ---
they marketed a broadband network to
connect thousands of stations using coaxial cable over a distance
of 40 miles.
% maybe CITE:
http://books.google.com/books?id=AyZfLaxYr9YC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&…
%28408%29+734-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=SYGI9rBAOV&sig=rxBo1SgfqdTLuNotXaa59nrR6
C4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20
734-9000%20%20sytek&f=false
Since they were using a VAX and he had kept in touch with Joy, he was
a beta-test site for 4BSD.\cite{salus1994}
% NOTE: about sytek: an ad to find employees
%http://books.google.com/books?id=ChMAmfS1nEkC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%28408%29+734
-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=aS_yQznXAy&sig=6vA7NTbspu3gcf_jT2sOiUSRPZU&hl=en&sa=X
&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20734-9000%20%2
0sytek&f=false
% NOTE: not to take over since no Sun then
Leffler went to Berkeley to work with Joy\cite{billshannon2} in the
fall of 1981.\cite{salus1994}.