From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 8th Edition timeline
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:41:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2M8tnHJcmRJixYqFBJZ2uKOh3mtVS+frnUnm9hqcknM1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2003300836010.6177@t1.m.reedmedia.net>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2639 bytes --]
Jeremy -- Sytek - that was it -- thank you. Sunnyvale/Mt. View -- who can
tell the difference? ;-)
Thanks again,
Clem
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:21 AM <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Clem Cole wrote:
>
> ...
> > kernel support to?handle?select(2) properly).? I remember talking to Sam
> (arguing
> > with him most probably) about it one night before it was fully created.?
> ?Iwant
> > to say, he had worked on something similar at the firm he was at (the
> firm
> > name I now forget -- si-mumble -- they were in Mt. View) before he joined
> > CRSG.? I don't remember now the issues I had, but I do remember it was a
> bit
> > of mess to support the way the AP hardware assumed it could do DMA on the
> > UBA[2]
>
> From my notes:
>
> After graduating, Leffler got a job in the Silicon Valley
> at Sytek, a small firm in Sunnyvale.
> % CITE: archives/csrg-archives/disk1/mnt/2.79/usenet/netdir/sites/sytek
> They used a PDP 11/45 and moved to a VAX 11/750 running VM/UNIX
> with four 300 baud ACU's (Automatic Call Units aka ``modems``) ---
> they marketed a broadband network to
> connect thousands of stations using coaxial cable over a distance
> of 40 miles.
> % maybe CITE:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=AyZfLaxYr9YC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=
>
> %28408%29+734-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=SYGI9rBAOV&sig=rxBo1SgfqdTLuNotXaa59nrR6
>
> C4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20
> 734-9000%20%20sytek&f=false
> <http://books.google.com/books?id=AyZfLaxYr9YC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=%28408%29+734-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=SYGI9rBAOV&sig=rxBo1SgfqdTLuNotXaa59nrR6C4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20734-9000%20%20sytek&f=false>
> Since they were using a VAX and he had kept in touch with Joy, he was
> a beta-test site for 4BSD.\cite{salus1994}
>
> % NOTE: about sytek: an ad to find employees
> %
> http://books.google.com/books?id=ChMAmfS1nEkC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%28408%29+734
>
> -9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=aS_yQznXAy&sig=6vA7NTbspu3gcf_jT2sOiUSRPZU&hl=en&sa=X
>
> &ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20734-9000%20%2
> 0sytek&f=false
> <http://books.google.com/books?id=ChMAmfS1nEkC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%28408%29+734-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=aS_yQznXAy&sig=6vA7NTbspu3gcf_jT2sOiUSRPZU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20734-9000%20%20sytek&f=false>
>
> % NOTE: not to take over since no Sun then
> Leffler went to Berkeley to work with Joy\cite{billshannon2} in the
> fall of 1981.\cite{salus1994}.
>
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3589 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-29 12:27 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-29 14:04 ` arnold
2020-03-29 18:12 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-29 21:48 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-30 7:43 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-30 9:06 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-04 12:56 ` emanuel stiebler
2020-04-04 19:57 ` Noel Hunt
2020-04-04 21:32 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-04 22:39 ` Noel Hunt
2020-04-05 1:38 ` aksr
2020-04-05 13:17 ` emanuel stiebler
2020-03-30 13:26 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-30 13:38 ` reed
2020-03-30 14:41 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2020-03-30 15:06 ` [TUHS] Sytek (was Re: 8th Edition timeline) Jon Forrest
2020-03-30 16:02 ` [TUHS] 8th Edition timeline Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-30 19:31 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-31 2:44 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-08 18:50 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-08 18:58 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-04-08 20:13 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-30 6:25 ` Paul Ruizendaal
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAC20D2M8tnHJcmRJixYqFBJZ2uKOh3mtVS+frnUnm9hqcknM1g@mail.gmail.com \
--to=clemc@ccc.com \
--cc=reed@reedmedia.net \
--cc=tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).