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 3960 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2022 11:45:07 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 14 Nov 2022 11:45:07 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9440409C4; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:44:26 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CD6A409BF for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:44:13 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com X-Envelope-To: Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 2AEBiBXf017577 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 04:44:12 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 2AEBiB1h017576 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 04:44:11 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202211141144.2AEBiB1h017576@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 04:44:11 -0700 To: tuhs@tuhs.org User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: GNKHSO5OELICYJUYH3DQYG2UFPLAXYT2 X-Message-ID-Hash: GNKHSO5OELICYJUYH3DQYG2UFPLAXYT2 X-MailFrom: arnold@skeeve.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 X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: DG UNIX History List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: This is what Scott Lee, who ran the Eclipse at Georgia Tech recalls. He has given permission for me to forward it, with the caveat that it was long ago and that "memories are malleable". Arnold > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 05:35:51 -0500 > Subject: Re: [TUHS] DG UNIX History > From: scott@thelees.org > To: arnold@skeeve.com > > > I'm pretty sure that DG never ported DG-UX to the Nova. There was > > a native port to the Eclipse (32 bit). There was also a Eunice-style > > Unix environment that sat on top of their native OS, whatever it was > > called. > > Yeh, that was an MV-10000 that we received. As I remember it, we also got > a copy of DG-UX, which was a port of SYS Vr2, not r3 as mentioned. I > think that it may have also had a directory with UCB versions of a bunch > of the utilities ported over so you could run either SysV tools or UCB > tools. > > LeBlanc was going to use it to teach ADA, so I was building some tools to > create/maintain user accounts, but I believe that I left just before they > were actually getting around to that. > > I was also playing with it on the side, when no one else was using it, to > build a small OS on it. I found that it followed a lot of the Nova > behavior, so I figured out how to write code onto a tape and bootstrap it > into the machine. Wrote a tape driver and a console driver and was > working on a disk driver. Targeting putting a small OS on it. > > Wow... I had almost forgotten that it even existed until I saw this. > > Enjoy, > Scott