25 May
2024
25 May
'24
10:21 p.m.
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 12:13 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That does complicate my simplistic story. Ing70 was,
then, as you noted
in a previous mail, an 11/70, but it _wasn't_ running Version 7 Unix,
but rather something with various bits of BSD (also in active
development, I reckon).
Mumble -- the kernel and 90% of the userspace on Ing70 was V7 -- it was
very similar to Teklabs which I ran.
It had all of 2BSD on it, but the kernel work that we think of as 'BSD" was
3.0BSD and later 4.0BSD and that was 100% on the Vax.
The point is it was a 16 bits system, the Johnson C compiler with some
fixes from the greater USENIX community including UCB.
There was >>no port<< needed.
This was its native tongue.
It was >>included<< in later BSD released which is how people came to know
it because 4.XBSD was became much more widely used than V7+2BSD.
The 2.9 work of Keith at al, started because the UCB Math Dept could not
afford a VAX. DEC had released the v7m code to support overlays, so
slowly
changed from the VAX made it back into the V7 based kernel - which took a
new life.
Clem
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