From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The Mark Williams Company and Coherent
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:40:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VSN0FrSJGgHAjkhC8QAkZmRgP12DgY3GWJ-vYtgiWUhUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 3:00 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another detail. There was lawyerly concern about the code being stolen
>
> There were similar issues at DEC when we ported VAX Fortran to Ultrix.
Especially with the port of the VMS linker, the piece of the project I
worked on. We had a member of the Ultrix team writing the code to convert
VMS object file debug information to a.out STABs, but other than that the
team doing the port stayed clear of the Ultrix sources.
-Paul W.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-15 14:41 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 ` [TUHS] " Heinz Lycklama
2024-03-15 7:00 ` 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 [this message]
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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