From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 17:01:39 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] lost ports In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Along those lines.... I once heard about a paper that was presented at some conference titled something along the lines of, "My Goodness: It Still Runs?!". The topic was some sort of early version of Unix running on some ancient piece of hardware doing some sort of industrial control. When I heard about it, a notable part of the paper was a mention that it was believed they had removed all bugs from the implementation. Not quite a lost version of Unix, but almost a lost+found version. Has anyone else heard of this paper? Perhaps it is apocryphal? I've always wanted to read it, but never found a copy "in the wild." - Dan C. On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:24 PM, ron minnich wrote: > So there are a few ports I know of that I wonder if they ever made it back > into that great github repo.I don't think they did. > > harris > gould > That weird BBN 20-bit machine > (20 bits? true story: 5 4-bit modules fit in a 19" rack. So 20 bits) > Alpha port (Tru64) > Precision Architecture > Unix port to Cray vector machines > > others? What's the list of "lost machines" look like? Would companies > consider a donation, do you think? > > If that Cray port is of any interest I have a thread I can push on maybe. > > but another true story: I visited DEC in 2000 or so, as LANL was about to > spend about $120M on an Alpha system. The question came up about the SRM > firmware for Alpha. As it was described to me, it was written in BLISS and > the only machine left that could build it was an 11/750, "somewhere in the > basement, man, we haven't turned that thing on in years". I suspect there's > a lot of these containing oxide oersteds of interest. > > ron > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: