From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:31:04 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other In-Reply-To: <20170222041734.GP9439@mcvoy.com> References: <20170221120218.E07BA18C10B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20170222041734.GP9439@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 21 February 2017 at 23:17, Larry McVoy wrote (in part): > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:07:20PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote (in part): >> I can say from first-hand experience that it was NOT easy to get access to >> Unix source code there. > > My experience at UWisc-Madison, during the time they were working on > 4.3-Uwisc, matches Dan's pretty well. > > I don't think it was like what Clem says for most people. Clem went > to CMU if I remember correctly, that puts him in a pretty elite class > right there. I can easily imagine that the CMU CS department let all > their students have access to the source if they wanted it. I don't > think that was anywhere near as common as Clem thinks it was. Agreement here. I was a grad student at Toronto but in math, not CS. Outside CS were the hoi-poli. (But there was a lively MINIX community, especially in biomed.) N.