[TUHS] Greetings!

Thank you to whoever added me to this list! I have been a UNIX & C disciple since 1982. I spent much of the 1980s writing UNIX, BSD, and OSF/1 device drivers. I ran "madhat", the first public access USENET site in Huntsville. Madhat was a homebuilt 68000 running Unisoft's port of System V Release 0. I also set up "uahcs1", the first UNIX and USENET host at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Uahcs1 was a Unisys U7000, originally known as the Power 6/32 minicomputer developed by Computer Consoles Inc., running their port of 4.3 BSD. During my career I have worked with UNIX v7, UNIX System V, AIX, BSD, HPUX, IRIX, Linux, MkLinux, OSF/1, Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix, and Xenix, as well as variants such as Mach, Minix, and Xinu. All of my currently active systems run various versions of macOS. In the past my home office was a Microsoft-Free Zone (tm) but alas too many clients insisted on the use of "Word" so I was forced to compromise and partially surrender to the Dark Side (but only in a Windoze VM). One of my current hobby projects is building a RISC processor using 1980 technology, specifically the Am2900 family of bit-slice components. I call it Project Madhat. My goal is to perform as well as a VAX-11/780 at least for integer code. I hope it will eventually run 4.4 BSD. If interested you can read about it here. http://www.xavax.com/madhat/ My professional work is fragmented. For years I've been developing a Massively-Parallel Processor based on the NXP (formerly Freescale or Motorola) T4240 which has 12 PowerPC e6500 cores and built-in Serial RapidIO. The execution units will run a lean microkernel but the overall system will be managed by some flavor of UNIX. I don't currently have any information about the MPP online without an NDA, but I would be happy to answer general questions about it. I was recently motivated by the Russo-Ukraine war to start a company called Trident Droneworks. It is developing systems for the Ukrainian military. If interested you can read about that here. http://tridentdroneworks.com/ Thanks again for adding me. I look forward to discussing UNIX lore. -- Phillip L Harbison