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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 26663 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2022 00:15:06 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 3 Aug 2022 00:15:06 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDA04024D; Wed, 3 Aug 2022 10:14:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23B094011D; Wed, 3 Aug 2022 10:14:24 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 973C335E91C; Tue, 2 Aug 2022 17:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 17:14:23 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Heinz Lycklama Message-ID: <20220803001423.GE20034@mcvoy.com> References: <8aa97449-2f8d-fb4e-6c72-1bfcd11a6a67@osta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8aa97449-2f8d-fb4e-6c72-1bfcd11a6a67@osta.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: VIJELMU6YNLE3BVLAPAUCEBE7KUGY4GL X-Message-ID-Hash: VIJELMU6YNLE3BVLAPAUCEBE7KUGY4GL X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org, Warren Toomey X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Documentation on MERT added to TUHS List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Was MERT anything like Victor Yodaiken's RT linux? He did a real time kernel that ran all of Unix as the idle process in the real time kernel. It was pretty slick, unfortunately Wind River bought it and killed it so it wasn't competition to their less well thought out system. Victor's paper is here http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/rtlmanifesto.pdf On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 05:07:25PM -0700, Heinz Lycklama wrote: > The MERT (Multi-Environment Real-Time) system was developed > at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ by myself and > Doug Bayer in the mid 1970's on a DEC PDP 11/45 computer. > MERT was picked up by the UNIX Support Group (USG) in 1977 and > has been distributed and supported throughout the Bell System. > The MERT Manual consists of both the MERT Programmer's > Manual and the UNIX Programmer's Manual. You can find > all of this documentation at: > ?????? 1. https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/MERT_Release_0/ > The hosting of this manual online was made possible by Clem Cole's > painstaking efforts to scan in and organize the hundreds of pages > in the hard copy MERT Manual. Clem had previously scanned in > my Technical Memoranda documenting my work at Bell Labs in > the 1970's on MERT, LSX, Mini-UNIX and the Mini-Computer > Satellite Processor System: > ?????? 2. > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/Heinz_Tech_Memos/ > The monthly UNIX Technology Advisor newsletter published > in 1989 and 1990 contains articles written by some of the leading > open systems industry pioneers. The first issue is available online here: > ?????? 3. https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Unix_Advisor/ > I want to thank Warren Toomey for providing and maintaining > the TUHS.org platform for the hosting of this > historical information > on UNIX systems for the community. > > Heinz Lycklama -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat