[pups] Mert (was PWB licensing)

[pups] Mert (was PWB licensing)

[John Holden]

Warren wrote :- 

>I think the phrase `successor systems' covers PWB, as PWB is derived
>from 6th Edition. Yes, I suppose we could ask for Mini-UNIX, PWB,
>Mert, RT and TS also to be added to the list.

I'd really like to get my hands on MERT, but past correspondence from DMR
suggests that it was probably never released outside the labs.  So, are there
any tapes lying about?

[pups] Mert (was PWB licensing)

[Warren Toomey]

In article by John Holden:
> I'd really like to get my hands on MERT, but past correspondence from DMR
> suggests that it was probably never released outside the labs.  So, are there
> any tapes lying about?

I've asked around a few times, but nobody has had any. I could pass on the
correspondence to you, if you wanted to do any further digging. Like you,
all I heard was that it never got out of the labs.

	Warren

[pups] Mert (was PWB licensing)

[Lars Buitinck]

silly question: what are MERT and RT anyway?
all the timelines list them, but not one actually expands the acronym.

[pups] Mert (was PWB licensing)

[Thor Lancelot Simon]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:01:52PM +0100, Lars Buitinck wrote:
> silly question: what are MERT and RT anyway?
> all the timelines list them, but not one actually expands the acronym.

Early realtime variants of Unix.  I don't think it's correct to state
that MERT "never made it outside the Labs" -- wasn't dMERT ("duplex 
MERT") the original operating system for the multiprocessor 3B20 in
the #4 and #5ESS telephone switches?  Indeed, vestiges of this use
have crept into more modern AT&T Unix releases; for instance, there
are references to MERT system call and signal numbers in various SVR4
header files.

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls at rek.tjls.com
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