2 Apr
2010
2 Apr
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7:56 a.m.
Is anything likely to happen to the status of various historical
Unices? Is Novell likely to keep the Ancient Unix license intact or
are they likely to lock things back up? Is there any chance that
SysIII and early SysV might finally get opened up? Does anybody have
any ideas here?
Mike
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Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell(a)gmail.com> writes:
: Is anything likely to happen to the status of various historical
: Unices? Is Novell likely to keep the Ancient Unix license intact or
: are they likely to lock things back up? Is there any chance that
: SysIII and early SysV might finally get opened up? Does anybody have
: any ideas here?
It is unlikely anything will happen before the Novel/SCO case is
completely over. All that has happened is that a key verdict on one
aspect of the case has been rendered. In all likelihood, Novel will
likely end up on top, but until the litigation is actually over, they
are unlikely to do anything.
Warner
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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:55 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
It is unlikely anything will happen before the
Novel/SCO case is
completely over. All that has happened is that a key verdict on one
aspect of the case has been rendered. In all likelihood, Novel will
likely end up on top, but until the litigation is actually over, they
are unlikely to do anything.
Warner
I realize that until things go through appeals and all, none of this
is final. I was just wondering whether we should be worried,
optimistic or indifferent about what will happen to the status of
historical Unix once the dust settles.
Mike
30 Apr
30 Apr
1:30 p.m.
New subject: UniFlex
From Wikipedia:
UniFLEX is a Unix-like operating system developed by Technical Systems
Consultants (TSC) for the Motorola 6809 family which allowed
multitasking and multiprocessing. It was released for DMA-capable 8"
floppy, extended memory addressing hardware (software controlled 4KiB
paging), Motorola 6809 based computers.
From
http://www.swtpcemu.com/Downloads.htm
A full distribution of UniFlex is available as tar.gz archives
from this page.
And the question is:
Would it make sense to add UniFlex to the UNIX archives in the
other subdirectory?
And if so, wouldn't then also make sense to have Tropix as well?
http://allegro.nce.ufrj.br/tropix/index.html
Just a suggestion. I know strictly speaking these are no proper UNIX
systems, but all the same they are independent implementations of the
same basic philosophy much like Coherent, OMU, Xinu, Sprite, Minix and
many others were.
j
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