6 Apr
2017
6 Apr
'17
7:30 a.m.
Wesley Parish wrote:
The mention of UNOS a realtime "clone" of
Unix in a recent thread raises a question for me. How many
Unix clones are there?
(My interest in Unix was the result of a local computer magazine, Bits'n'Bytes
in the late 80s and early 90s
discussing two clones, Minix and Coherent in its Unix column. Then came Linux ...)
We've got a timeline (in several forms, in the 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD books and The Magic
Garden, on Groklaw,
and elsewhere) for Unix and its developments; has anyone done one for the clones?
Thanks
Wesley Parish
"I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand
Sor,
Method for Guitar
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel
Goldwyn
Idris from Whitesmiths once passed through my hands... I actually
skipped that one for UniPlus SysIII and SysV on the
Perkin-Elmer 7350 box with a dip packaged 68000...
I ran Coherent until I got the hardware to go 386-BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
and Linux 0.99.xx (SLS and later Slackware).
Before the UniPlus I ran Xenix-86 on an AT&T 6300 with a Nec V30 (not a
6300+ 286 box).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like
Bill