From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:47:18 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] typesetting history In-Reply-To: <3673be10cad03fd03b3f3e2485eeebc1.squirrel@www.ccil.org> References: <201506170531.t5H5VOUY004316@skeeve.com> <9D67C5EA-3395-47FB-BB7E-05C471FD1B2F@cs.uwlax.edu> <3673be10cad03fd03b3f3e2485eeebc1.squirrel@www.ccil.org> Message-ID: Hello! Indeed. I did know about the MV series of machines and in fact that's the fellow I met during the period that I referenced. I knew that no such port was constructed for the first generation machines. And incidentally the DG machines I first met were a NOVA-2 and then a NOVA-3. Finally one who started out as a NOVA-4 but became an MV Eclipse design. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:09 PM, wrote: > Gregg Levine scripsit: > >> Now I freely admit if someone did indeed succeed in porting UNIX to >> that DG, and in fact that's why the two were connected that way, but >> for the vast majority of shops during the late 80s and during most of >> the 90s who bought the software I've described and also the hardware >> that's how it was done. > > AFAIK there was no port of any 16-bit Unix to the Eclipse. The Eclipse > MV (32-bit) had a port of SVR2. > > -- > John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org > Sir, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many? > --George Bernard Shaw, > to a man booing at the opening of _Arms and the Man_ > >