On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:30
PM Heinz Lycklama <
heinz@osta.com> wrote:
INTERACTIVE Systems Corp. (ISC) also ported a UNIX
system to an
early VAX 11/750 computer running DEC's VMS operating
system
starting in mid- 1978. ISC was in the business of porting
the
UNIX operating system to many different computer hardware
architectures, mini-computers to mainframes, but the first
complete UNIX system port was actually done to the DEC VMS
system. We delivered the first UNIX on VMS system to a
customer
in the Fall of 1979. Many of these systems were delivered
to
customers in North America as well as in Europe well into
the mid-1980's.
What relationship, if any, does this have to V32? Or
maybe "Was that based on V7 or V32?" is the right
question...
Also, this wasn't something that I had on my list... Any
chance there's a paper / article / etc on this?
And thank you for your remembrance...
Warner
Heinz
On 1/15/2021 6:29 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
Whose foray? Not DEC's. Eunice was built
at SRI and sold by the
> Wollongong Group, who must have had
Downundrian connections.
It was
originally developed ca. 1981 by David
Kashtan at SRI[1] and later
maintained and marketed by The Wollongong
Group.''
Where's the disagreement?
Eunice post-dated DEC's first Unix offering by
several years. They sold V7 and later V7M before
rebranding it to Ultrix. Eunice was 4.1BSD (later
4.2 and 4.3) that Dr Kashtan grafted into VMS in
ways that... provoke strong feelings among
reviewers... The TCP/IP stack that was inside of
Eunice would form the basis for Wollongong's
TCP/IP offerings on VMS... A more refined version,
also done I think by Kashtan, was marketed by TGV
and there was always much rivalry between the two
companies...
Wollongong got its license because they were
the marketing company formed to market Dr.
Miller's port to Interdata, and they later
branched out significantly because their license
was so special... Or at least that's the story
they told customers and internally... I never saw
the original license to know...
Warner