5 Jan
2017
5 Jan
'17
6:28 p.m.
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:41:07 -0500
From: "Ron Natalie" <ron(a)ronnatalie.com>
To: "'ron minnich'" <rminnich(a)gmail.com>,
<tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] lost ports
Message-ID: <01c001d266d3$42294820$c67bd860$(a)ronnatalie.com>
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I did kernel work on the PA for HP also worked on their
X server (did a few other X server >over the years).
The hard part would be finding anybody from these
companies who could even remember
they made computers let alone had UNIX software.
I worked for the computer division in Philips Electronics, DEC,
Compaq, HP, HPE and still remember some of it :-)
I wasn't involved in OS development, but in testing, turnover to
National Sales Organisations, etc. Even now at some customer side I
still have a few aDEC400xP servers from 1992 running SCO UNIX 3.2V4.2
(last update 1999). Also a few AlphaServers with Digital UNIX, Tru64;
finally some Itanium servers with HP-UX 11.23/11.31.
Especially the big/small endian issue gave our customer (and therefore
myself) a few headaches. Imagine getting a chunk of shared memory and
casting pointers assuming the 'system' takes care of alignment. Big
surprise for the customer moving from Tru64 to HP-UX.