11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
4:04 a.m.
On Monday, 10 November 2003 at 12:28:57 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
Mario Premke:
but I wonder when the step from
16bit to 32bit was made in BSD.
Michael Sokolov:
It was not made in BSD. It was made at Ma Bell: the step from V7 to 32V (VAX
port of V7).
You're a little late: researchers at Bell Labs ported UNIX to the 32-bit
Interdata 8/32 in 1977.
To be fair, this had nothing to do with BSD.
Others ported the system in those carefree days as
well, in
particular Richard Miller at the University of Wollongong, but I
don't know much about the other efforts.
I believe the Wollongong port predated the one at Bell Labs. Peter
Gray tells me he still has the original machine they used, and he'd
like to find a museum-like place to keep it. No idea whether it
runs. Greg Rose should know a lot more about this matter. Greg, are
you out there?
Greg
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