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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, ralph@inputplus.co.uk
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Request for the story: Unix on the Cray 1 at Bell Labs
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:47:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201811141147.wAEBlw8b022053@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181114110743.2DD4C1F942@orac.inputplus.co.uk>

Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Arnold,
>
> > In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs&feature=youtu.be Rob
> > Pike mentions that DMR and Norman Wilson ported Unix to the Cray 1 and
> > that it was not straightforward.
>
> Are you aware of https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cray.html ?

I am now. :-)

I guess I'll have to pull down the papers. Nonetheless, if Norman
has any first-hand antecdotes, I'm sure they'd be of interest.

Thanks,

Arnold

      reply	other threads:[~2018-11-14 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-14  6:58 arnold
2018-11-14 11:07 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-11-14 11:47   ` arnold [this message]

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