8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
3:18 p.m.
This web page has some details about XENIX prior to 1985:
http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html
In particular this chart is intriguing:
http://seefigure1.com/images/xenix/xenix-timeline.jpg
I’d love to have XENIX from the 1980-1985 era in the TUHS archive, as it documents the
tail end of the Unix on 16 bits era. It would have been great if MS had released that as
part of the Unix-at-50 events.
Paul
8 Jan
8 Jan
6:46 p.m.
New subject: What happened with XENIX?
One of my first contracts with IBM was to add (get this) a SECOND network interface to
secure-XENIX, an MLS version of the software.
I believe it was being used as a “downgrade” audit station to allow data to be moved form
one secure network to another. I believe the
original work was done by Jakob Recktor (probably butchering the spelling of his name).
That contract led to a few follow ons with IBM to port AIX to i860 based machines. I
still have my old IBM badge kicking around somewhere.
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