From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:35:42 +1000 From: George Michaelson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Don't know much about history Message-Id: <20040630183542.3f8f912f@dhcppc1> In-Reply-To: References: <85f02f6cb97f9c7eaa11ea22b81d91d2@9netics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b1357686-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:58:54 -0700 Geoff Collyer 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