From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 19291 invoked from network); 9 May 2021 19:58:19 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 9 May 2021 19:58:19 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 089609B990; Mon, 10 May 2021 05:58:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993319B8C1; Mon, 10 May 2021 05:57:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 3B5D39B8C1; Mon, 10 May 2021 05:57:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F15219B890 for ; Mon, 10 May 2021 05:57:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id B0ACB35E269; Sun, 9 May 2021 12:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 12:57:45 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Paul Ruizendaal Message-ID: <20210509195745.GS2329@mcvoy.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Genix / early 80's VM variants X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Pretty sure Bill Jolitz either had a 32016 Unix or he was also selling similar boxes. National couldn't get it together to produce bug free chips or maybe we'd all be running that, pretty nice architecture (in theory). On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 09:47:57PM +0200, Paul Ruizendaal wrote: > Looking at some VM stuff, I came across this: > http://bitsavers.org/bits/AmericanInformationSystems/ > > It seems American Information Systems was a short-lived National Semiconductor spinoff that made a 32016 based board that plugged into a PDP-11 QBus: > https://books.google.nl/books?id=xyjys2kz1RQC&pg=RA1-PA58&lpg=RA1-PA58&dq=american+information+system+3210&source=bl&ots=f1JGu1boT6&sig=ACfU3U2X04c3Myuhea-MLepeKFed6vvVCw&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=american%20information%20system%203210&f=false > > It ran a version of Unix called Genix that appears to be SysV R2 derived, but with VM code that is neither 4BSD derived, nor SysV R2.4 derived. > > The VM code names David I. Bell and Laura Neff as authors. > > Anybody recall American Info Systems and/or Genix? > > Paul > -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm