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* [TUHS] PCC for the i386
@ 2019-07-11 14:53 Jason Stevens
  2019-07-11 15:12 ` arnold
  2019-07-11 15:37 ` Clem cole
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Jason Stevens @ 2019-07-11 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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Does anyone know where the 386 port from PCC came from?

While trying to build a Tahoe userland for the i386, it seems that everything was built with GCC…
Was there a PCC for the i386 around ’88-90?  It seems after the rapid demise of the Tahoe/Harris
HCX-9 that the non Vax/HCX-9 platforms had moved to GCC?

Also anyone know any good test software for LIBC?  I’ve been tracing through some
strange issues rebuilding LIBC from Tahoe, where I had to include some bits from
Reno to get diropen to actually work.  I would imagine there ought to have been some
platform exercise code to make sure things were actually working instead of say
building as much as you can, and playing rogue for a few hours to make sure
its stable enough. 

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* Re: [TUHS] Old 386 Unix Versions, was: Re: PCC for the i386
@ 2019-07-20  5:32 Rudi Blom
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: Rudi Blom @ 2019-07-20  5:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rrigo; +Cc: tuhs

>Does anyone have documentation or history for European efforts in the Unix-like operating systems? For example there was Bull’s Chorus which I seem to recall was based on Mach or a competing microkernel (it was a very long time ago and I used it for no mare than about two hours..).

>I am rather saddened by the fact that there is so much about all the Unix (and not only >Unix) history of computing in the USA and so very little in Europe. I wouldn’t even know >where to start, to be honest, all I have as a history is the Italian side from my father and his other mad friends and colleagues in Milan. So little of it is recorded, never mind written down.

In the 80-tisch I worked at Philips Data Systems in Apeldoorn, the
Netherlands. Not in Development, but in System Support. Philips was
working on a System V.3 based UNIX running on Motorola 68000 CPUs in a
P9X00 server. Called MPX as in Multi-Processor UNIX. The Multi part
refers to having an Ethernet, X25 and SDLC board running a tailored
version of the OS to offload the main CPU.
See for example
https://www.cbronline.com/news/better_late_philips_enters_the_uk_unix_market/
https://www.cbronline.com/news/philips_ready_with_68030_models_for_its_p9000_unix_workstation_family

Later Philips moved to i386 with a 'unknown version' based UNIX.
Division was bought by DEC (some say sold off by Philips) in 1991 and
we moved to DEC's choice of SCO UNIX. The 'intelligent comm boards
were ported and still running the separate OS though.

Unfortunately I never had any of that OS type of source and my paper
archive was left behind. Only have some small higher level test stuff
and my mail archive. For a while I was "rudi blom"
<blom@kiwi.idca.tds.philips.nl>, later rudi blom"@apd.mts

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2019-07-11 14:53 [TUHS] PCC for the i386 Jason Stevens
2019-07-11 15:12 ` arnold
2019-07-11 15:37 ` Clem cole
2019-07-11 15:50   ` Jason Stevens
2019-07-11 16:30     ` Clem cole
2019-07-11 16:42       ` Richard Salz
2019-07-11 16:48       ` Warner Losh
2019-07-11 17:05         ` Clem Cole
2019-07-11 19:39           ` Charles H Sauer
2019-07-12  0:14             ` Clem Cole
2019-07-11 16:50       ` A. P. Garcia
2019-07-11 16:54         ` Clem Cole
2019-07-12  3:44         ` Michael Parson
2019-07-17  7:37         ` [TUHS] Old 386 Unix Versions, was: " emanuel stiebler
2019-07-17  8:10           ` arnold
2019-07-17  9:28             ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-07-17 10:09               ` Jason Stevens
2019-07-17 10:42               ` emanuel stiebler
2019-07-17 15:40                 ` Adam Thornton
2019-07-17 18:01                   ` Clem Cole
2019-07-17 12:32               ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2019-07-17 12:50                 ` Dagobert Michelsen
2019-07-17 13:38                   ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-07-17 14:41                 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-17 15:08                   ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2019-07-17 21:09                     ` Dagobert Michelsen
2019-07-18  8:56                       ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-07-17 16:04                   ` William Pechter
2019-07-17 14:34               ` Clem Cole
2019-07-17 23:22                 ` Bakul Shah
2019-07-18  0:04                   ` Clem cole
2019-07-17 22:48               ` Chris Hanson
2019-07-18  8:39                 ` Wesley Parish
2019-07-17 14:15             ` Clem Cole
2019-07-17 15:11             ` Larry McVoy
2019-07-17 15:31               ` Warner Losh
2019-07-17 15:36               ` Jason Stevens
2019-07-17 16:56                 ` Larry McVoy
2019-07-24  1:04               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2019-07-24  1:30                 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-07-24 21:53                 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-07-25 19:16                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2019-07-25 19:29                     ` [TUHS] AT&T 3b4000 (was Re: Old 386 Unix Versions) Kevin Bowling
2019-07-25 20:47                       ` Clem Cole
2019-07-26 18:18                         ` Seth J. Morabito
2019-07-26 19:24                           ` Clem Cole
2019-07-18  0:04           ` [TUHS] BSD/386 (was: Old 386 Unix Versions, was: Re: PCC for the i386) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-07-18  0:16             ` Richard Salz
2019-07-18  1:08               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-07-18 15:01             ` Chet Ramey
2019-07-20  5:32 [TUHS] Old 386 Unix Versions, was: Re: PCC for the i386 Rudi Blom

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