From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rob@vetsystems.com (Robert Tillyard) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:38:20 +0000 Subject: [pups] Interesting PDP/Xenix History References: Message-ID: <3C9EFE1C.E58CB607@vetsystems.com> Frank Wortner wrote: > > on 3/23/02 11:26 PM, Warren Toomey at wkt at minnie.tuhs.org wrote: > > > In article by Martin Crehan: > >> From a thread on Slashdot about Microsoft's Ancient History w/Unix > >> http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/23/1422243.shtml?tid=130 > >> > >> First Unix/Xenix (Score:1) > >> by presearch on Saturday March 23, @01:58PM (#3213453) > >> (User #214913 Info) > > > > I've left a comment in the thread asking if they would > > donate a copy of the tape's contents to our Archive. > > I also remember running PDP/11 Xenix. The article is basically correct, > although Microsoft (or HCR) did add a working paging system that enabled > simulation of split I&D on small PDP/11s like the 11/23, 11/34, and 11/40. > I also remember that my copy of the installation document had been printed > by Microsoft's PDP/10 (referred to as the "Microsoft Heating Plant" :-) in > the printout). I wish I still had the tape and that printout. Sigh ... > > -- > Frank Would SCO->Caldera have copies of this? SCO did the Intel port of Xenix so they would probably have started with the PDP source. Would tapes be copyright to Microsoft? I doubt that they would release the source for the Intel version as it is still in use today although I don't think that SCO/Caldera will sell it anymore. Rob.