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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Don't know much about history
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:15:06 +0200
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> Whitesmiths: was started by P. J. Plauger (previously of Bell Labs),
> had a UNIX workalike (V6, and later V7) called Idris, which didn't
> require hardware MMU.  They had a line of nice C compilers for
> a number of processors (starting with z-80 i think).  Got sold to
> Intermetrics. 

yes, Whitesmiths had a good reputation.