18 May
2006
18 May
'06
2:48 a.m.
On Wed, 17 May 2006, patv(a)monmouth.com wrote:
Another loss to the UNIX community that I can
personally report was the
closing, one year ago this month, of the old DEC Manalpan facility (UNX).
This was the home of VAX System V, a large portion of Ultrix, and
everything that made up OSF1/Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX except for kernel,
drivers, and several other components (although I personally did some
kernel work on occasion). We did shell and utilities, about 1/2 of X,
Motif, CDE, installation, mail, and other parts of the OS that made it
useful. If you look at old uucp headers anywhere on usenet, any of the
traffic with headers that included systems with "unx" in the name was
routed through this facility. I was there from when it was Digital
through Compaq and finally HP, almost all the way through to the closing.
It would be nice if CDE were free, the rest is either part of the Heirloom
project or cloned in some open-source system (e.g., Lesstif). --;
-uso.