From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Don't know much about history
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:12:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85f02f6cb97f9c7eaa11ea22b81d91d2@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e35c06204062922203ce30f5b@mail.gmail.com>
> "Cromemco, Onyx, Yourdon, Whitesmiths, Amdahl, and Wollongong Group."
Cromemco: They built S-100 bus computers starting with z80 machines
and later (I think) using 68000 and 8086 (on VME machines?). I think
Cromix ran on the z-80 stuff and I thought they used UniSoft's port of
System V on 68000 versions.
Onyx: Z-8000 based computers. Seem to recall they also had a V7
UNIX port of some sort running on them.
Yourdon: Told people how they should design software.
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.
Amdahl: made IBM 360/370 plug compatible (clone);
Was bought by Fujitsu (I think?) I can't recall what UNIX variant
they had for it, or who did the work. This wasn't the MERT stuff, was it?
Wollongong Group: They were the guys that had an IP stack
implementation for System V on the AT&T 3B line of
computers and the UNIX-PC.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 7:12 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 [this message]
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
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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