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From: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, pugs@ieee.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Alternative Implementation Proposal for Unix/370 (BTL, 1979)
Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 10:08:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6493122A-B704-4039-8F4C-8C6FEAEC5220@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202205060735.2467Z7Rc032121@freefriends.org>

They liked kicking a dead whale down the beach.  

> On May 6, 2022, at 09:39, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> Tom Lyon via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
>> I was (re?)introduced to Chuck Haley recently and discovered he had a copy
>> of a Bell Labs memo from himself, London, Maranzaro, and Ritchie.  They
>> suggest that the path pursued to get UNIX running in/under TSS/370 was the
>> hard way to go.
>> 
>> Enjoy:
>> http://charles.the-haleys.org/papers/Alternate_Implementation_Proposal_for_Unix370.pdf
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> - Tom
> 
> So, why, given the letter from these folks, including DMR, did they go
> ahead and use the TSS solution anyway?
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> Arnold


  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-06  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-05 21:32 Tom Lyon via TUHS
2022-05-05 23:01 ` Adam Thornton
2022-05-06 22:54   ` Kevin Bowling
2022-05-06  7:35 ` arnold
2022-05-06  8:08   ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2022-05-06 14:21     ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2022-05-06 15:51       ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-05-06 15:33 Noel Chiappa
2022-05-07 19:03 ` arnold

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