From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Don't know much about history
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:35:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040630183542.3f8f912f@dhcppc1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f78e33ac6ab2511fcb04443727e4406a@collyer.net>
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:58:54 -0700 Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net> wrote:
>Google is unreachable now (as is much of the Internet), but I think
>the Wollongong Group were best known for Eunice, a Unix emulator that
>ran (slowly) on VAX/VMS.
in the absence of a real OS fork() with open FD 0 1 2 state, eunice beat
the hell out of the VMS alternatives for many things. I never liked
'mailboxes' which was their IPC model.
running eunice was a hoot!
-George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-30 5:20 Jack Johnson
2004-06-30 7:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-06-30 7:26 ` Richard Miller
2004-06-30 21:34 ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-01 3:57 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-06-30 7:48 ` Richard Miller
2004-06-30 21:16 ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30 7:57 ` Richard Miller
2004-06-30 7:58 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-06-30 8:35 ` George Michaelson [this message]
2004-06-30 21:29 ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30 21:22 ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30 21:15 ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30 8:46 ` Steve Simon
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