From: Heinz Lycklama <heinz@osta.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The Mark Williams Company and Coherent
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:16:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4999eb0b-e0e5-4a79-b14f-77d17995f454@osta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOkr1zW9OtC=JExhOv=_sjb6_rV-RnCp8ozWSD+GsnFJaAdRZA@mail.gmail.com>
Interesting little history about Coherent. They were
one of a few companies building UNIX-like systems
from scratch without using UNIX source code in the
early 1980's. Robert Schwartz represented the Mark
Williams Company on the /usr/group standards
effort resulting in the /usr/group Standard in 1984.
Robert was very insistent that members of the
/usr/group standards group did not have to be
UNIX source licensees.
Heinz
On 3/14/2024 8:45 PM, Marc Rochkind wrote:
> In another thread there's been some discussion of Coherent. I just
> came across this very detailed history, just posted last month.
> There's much more to it than I knew.
>
> https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-mark-williams-company
>
> Marc
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-15 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-15 3:45 [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
2024-03-15 5:16 ` Heinz Lycklama [this message]
2024-03-15 7:00 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2024-03-15 13:03 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-15 13:43 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-15 14:10 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-15 15:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-03-15 14:40 ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-15 21:23 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-15 22:27 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2024-03-15 22:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-15 23:00 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-03-15 23:16 ` Rich Salz
2024-03-16 5:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-03-18 12:27 ` Dan Cross
2024-03-18 14:12 ` Douglas McIlroy
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