From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:14:05 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] NUXI Problem In-Reply-To: <20171108202833.GA24833@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20171108202833.GA24833@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20171108231405.GA15489@minnie.tuhs.org> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 06:28:33AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: >On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Nemo wrote: >>What was that story about porting an early UNIX to a machine with >>different char polarity? I dimly recall only a few problems. > >The NUXI problem on the Interdata 7/32, when the University of Wollongong >did the port of Sixth Edition. Oops, I stand corrected (by private e-mails), it was the IBM Series/1. I'll blame bit rot, or perhaps the Interdata also suffered from the NUXI problem. Thanks, Warren