3 May
2025
3 May
'25
9:16 a.m.
On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 08:28:03AM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
On 5/2/25 8:15 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
James Gula was another person who moved from MIT to WD to TI.
"Jim Gula has left the LCS staff to join WD; while we regret losing him,
we feel that he will serve important roles both in the MIT/WD interface
and in making the Nu into a successful product."
LCS Progress Report 18, July 1980 - June 1981, p 212
"In December, it was concluded that the research interests of the TRIX
project were best served by a re-engineering of its internal structure
rather than by polishing of the existing implementation. In order to
reconcile this plan with the need for a viable Nu programming
environment for other projects, Version 7 UNIX was ported to the Nu
during the Spring by Gula, Sieber, Terman, and Test."
LCS Progress Report 18, July 1980 - June 1981, p 213
"John Seamons of Lucasfilm brought up Jim Gula's MIT Nu Unix on the Sun.
We have an Ethernet based version of this Unix running at Stanford"
Vaughan Pratt on fa.works, Jan 1982
https://groups.google.com/g/fa.works/c/WHpSvlbG0A8/m/IUdSUIwJqAgJ
https://www.saildart.org/WORKS.MSG[UP,DOC]28
James Gula on LinkedIn:
Engineering Manager, Texas Instruments, 1983 - 1986
Engineering manager for the Nu Machine Project
Software Engineering Manager, Western Digital, 1981 - 1983
Managed the UNIX port to the Nu Machine project
Technical Staff, MIT LCS, 1979 - 1981
Port of UNIX to the Nu Machine and related software.
Thank you, Tom, for the definitive answers to
much of this.
This is a huge help to me. I came to Apple just before the Mac II was released and know
all of the people that were involved with designing our PC version of Nubus. One of the
people was Tony Masterson who came to Apple from TI, and I think I remember him telling
me he was a MIT grad student. I've traced the path from Western Digital to TI for
Nubus
George White seems to be the MIT - Western Digital connection.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/nubus/White_-_Nubus_Computer_Design_19840615.pdf