From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: drb@msu.edu (Dennis Boone) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:49:09 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] And now ... Weirdnix? In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sun, 17 Sep 2017 17:03:16 +1000.) <8AA943A2-D6C0-4812-9C16-C09D1298754F@tuhs.org> References: <8AA943A2-D6C0-4812-9C16-C09D1298754F@tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20170917144909.DB27FA585CB@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> > To kick a more relevant thread off, what was the "weirdest" Unix > system you used & why? Could be an emulation like Eunice, could be > the hardware e.g NULL was not zero, NUXI byte ordering etc. Guess I can more or less tick two of the above boxes. The Prime minis had a layered product called Primix that provided a unix userland of sorts. Dog slow, at least in its earlier releases. Null pointers were not zero on the Prime machines. De