Re: [TUHS] ACM Fellow, Ken Thompson

[Heinz Lycklama <heinz@osta.com>]

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INTERACTIVE Systems Corp. (ISC) also ported a UNIX system to an
early VAX 750 computer running DEC's VMS operating system
starting in mid- 1978. ISC was in the business of porting the
UNIX operating system to many different computer hardware
architectures, mini-computers to mainframes, but the first
complete UNIX system port was actually done to the DEC VMS
system. We delivered the first UNIX on VMS system to a customer
in the Fall of 1979.  Many of these systems were delivered to
customers in North America as well as in Europe well into
the mid-1980's.

Heinz

On 1/15/2021 6:29 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:18 PM John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org 
> <mailto:cowan@ccil.org>> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:14 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org
>     <mailto:dave@horsfall.org>> wrote:
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>         > Whose foray? Not DEC's.  Eunice was built at SRI and sold by
>         the
>         > Wollongong Group, who must have had Downundrian connections.
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>          It was
>         originally developed ca. 1981 by David Kashtan at SRI[1] and later
>         maintained and marketed by The Wollongong Group.''
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>     Where's the disagreement?
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> Eunice post-dated DEC's first Unix offering by several years. They 
> sold V7 and later V7M before rebranding it to Ultrix. Eunice was 
> 4.1BSD (later 4.2 and 4.3) that Dr Kashtan grafted into VMS in ways 
> that... provoke strong feelings among reviewers...  The TCP/IP stack 
> that was inside of Eunice would form the basis for Wollongong's TCP/IP 
> offerings on VMS... A more refined version, also done I think by 
> Kashtan, was marketed by TGV and there was always much rivalry between 
> the two companies...
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> Wollongong got its license because they were the marketing company 
> formed to market Dr. Miller's port to Interdata, and they later 
> branched out significantly because their license was so special...  Or 
> at least that's the story they told customers and internally... I 
> never saw the original license to know...
>
> Warner


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