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From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: [TUHS] What sparked lint? [Was: Unix stories]
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:17:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c8a320e-7b39-8734-1db5-0491ab38dd88@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af8081d6-dd25-db9b-79d3-2f83b48fcad0@mhorton.net>

On 1/5/17 3:55 PM, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> I recall at the Delaware Usenix conference (in 1979?) a professor from Case
> Western gave a talk about his port of UNIX to some Interdata or Data
> General or something.  He said that when he booted it up, it said "NUXI".

That might have been Sam Leffler and Bill Shannon's port of 7th Edition
to the Harris/6.  Somewhere I have both their MS theses describing it.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-05 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-05  1:30 Nemo
2017-01-05  1:39 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  3:20 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-05 17:46   ` Ron Natalie
2017-01-05 20:55     ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-01-05 21:06       ` Clem Cole
2017-01-05 21:17       ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2017-01-05 21:30         ` Clem Cole
2017-01-05 21:42           ` ron minnich
2017-01-05 21:51             ` Ron Natalie
2017-01-05 22:02             ` Chet Ramey

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