[TUHS] Re: DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report

[Tom Perrine <tom.perrine+tuhs@gmail.com>]

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I will have to take a look around my offline archives and CDs. I had the
complete source of KSOS as it existed ca 1988 after certain changes were
made at Logicon.

I haven't looked at that data in years - it is possible that it may even
have the original Ford KDNs (Kernel Design Notes).  I'm *pretty* sure I
know where it is.

If there's any interest I can look for it later this week.

Before and during early covid I was using SIMH to build a PWB system to
serve as the dev platform for KSOS.  I think I had everything EXCEPT the
Modula compiler.  For the life of me I can't remember which compiler it
was. It was GFE as part of the project; it would have been the same
compiler used at Ford.

--tep


On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 8:16 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:

> As promised in the other email, I had one other tidbit worth sharing some
> detail on but that is very different from WECo promo and informational
> material.  What I've got here are two documents pertaining to the
> "Department of Defence Kernelized Secure Operating System" project as
> undertaken by Ford's Western Development Laboratories Division.
>
> The documents in question are https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA111577.pdf
> and https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA111566.pdf and represent the User's
> Manuals and Final Report respectively on this KSOS system.  These appear to
> be from the same microfiche as the documents linked based on splotches on
> the last page's date frame, although the copies I have here have the full
> frame, the PDFs linked seem to have the last panel cropped to a small
> square in the middle.  Not super significant, but sometimes it's the little
> details.
>
> Anywho, unfortunately I don't have much to report, I got a bit excited
> while looking for these at first because I was having a hard time turning
> up PDFs, thought I had stumbled upon something unseen for some time, but in
> the gulf between last email and this I found them.  Silver lining is one
> less set of documents to scan, but nothing to really expose that isn't
> already a click away.
>
> - Matt G.
>

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