From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:34:50 +1030 Subject: [pups] History of 32-bit UNIX (was History of 2 BSD) In-Reply-To: <20031110172933.B05311F1B@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20031110172933.B05311F1B@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20031110220450.GC77527@wantadilla.lemis.com> On Monday, 10 November 2003 at 12:28:57 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: > Mario Premke: > > but I wonder when the step from > 16bit to 32bit was made in BSD. > > Michael Sokolov: > > It was not made in BSD. It was made at Ma Bell: the step from V7 to 32V (VAX > port of V7). > > You're a little late: researchers at Bell Labs ported UNIX to the 32-bit > Interdata 8/32 in 1977. To be fair, this had nothing to do with BSD. > Others ported the system in those carefree days as well, in > particular Richard Miller at the University of Wollongong, but I > don't know much about the other efforts. I believe the Wollongong port predated the one at Bell Labs. Peter Gray tells me he still has the original machine they used, and he'd like to find a museum-like place to keep it. No idea whether it runs. Greg Rose should know a lot more about this matter. Greg, are you out there? Greg -- Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available URL: