From: nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com (Nigel Williams)
Subject: [TUHS] And now ... Weirdnix?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:27:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACCFpdwD4jAx69MqQ1QdT7GRuKMbVVOBjvMLbMHgu2GSRcy7rQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170917144909.DB27FA585CB@yagi.h-net.msu.edu>
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:49 AM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
> The Prime minis
> had a layered product called Primix that provided a unix userland of
> sorts. Dog slow, at least in its earlier releases. Null pointers were
> not zero on the Prime machines.
I second Dennis's vote for Primix as "weirdnix".
The other weirdness was the high-bit of ASCII being set due to the
convention on Primos (they feared to ever change it to avoid upsetting
customers).
People went mad trying to port applications to it due to these
differences. Primos defaulted to all UPPERCASE, and I vaguely recall
having to poke about for a fair while when starting Primix to convince
the Prime terminal handler to switch to lowercase.
There was an attempt to produce a native port of Unix for Prime
computers but I believe it was squashed by Prime management.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-18 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-17 7:03 Warren Toomey
2017-09-17 7:28 ` arnold
2017-09-17 8:10 ` David Arnold
2017-09-17 12:52 ` Adam Sampson
2017-09-17 14:23 ` Steve Simon
2017-09-17 18:50 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-17 19:01 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2017-09-18 12:02 ` arnold
2017-09-17 14:49 ` Dennis Boone
2017-09-18 7:27 ` Nigel Williams [this message]
2017-09-18 8:31 ` arnold
2017-09-18 10:39 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-18 11:59 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-09-19 1:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-19 7:07 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-19 14:09 ` [TUHS] PR1ME - was " Toby Thain
2017-09-17 15:08 ` [TUHS] " Nemo
2017-09-18 23:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-04 5:58 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-10-04 16:15 ` George Michaelson
[not found] <mailman.1035.1505674910.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-09-18 11:41 ` [TUHS] " David
2017-09-18 13:15 ` Chet Ramey
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