From: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Warkentin <andreww591@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Were any of the commercial unixes source-available?
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 08:40:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALQ0xCAPX_C+CC9+KRzArtGaoMYPCyiW7qA4tP8rtdKJXeA0LQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD-qYGqWKYqy2f5DSgf--Kee0bSAdYrgOnTpoOjSCefE4QAk7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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My team at Morgan Stanley had a source license to SunOS in the early ‘90s.
We tried to secure a license to AIX source but never succeeded.
On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 7:26 AM Andrew Warkentin <andreww591@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 9/2/23, Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com> wrote:
> > I’ve been playing around trying to link the OpenSolaris launch commit to
> > various pieces in the Unix History Repository, and it’s making me wonder
> if
> > we’ll ever have a chance to see the history of the systems.
> >
> > I’m less concerned about HPUX, AIX and SCO’s offerings since I presume
> > someone has copy inside these companies. But what about A/UX, Irix,
> Tru64?
> > Did these ever get sold with licenses to source tapes? Are there copies
> we
> > need to preserve in-camera so something can exist 120 years after
> creation
> > or whenever copyright expires?
> >
> There are source leaks for quite a few commercial Unices floating
> around in various places. These are the ones I'm aware of:
>
> A/UX (0.7, which is complete, and 2.x, which is only the kernel)
> AIX 4.1.3 (most of the kernel and some of user space, possibly
> complete enough to build)
> BSD/OS (various versions, probably complete)
> DEC OSF/1 (1.0 and 2.0; these seem reasonably complete)
> DYNIX 3.x (several versions, possibly complete enough to build)
> DYNIX/PTX (4.x?; possibly complete enough to build)
> IRIX 6.5.5 (missing quite a few major packages and nowhere near
> complete enough to build)
> MIPS RISC/os 4.52 (possibly complete)
> SGI System V GL2-W3.7 (for the IRIS 3000 68K machines; probably complete)
> SunOS 4.1.3 (seems to be the complete base system)
> System V for the 3b2 (several 3.x versions, possibly complete)
> System V for the UNIX PC (3.51, possibly complete)
> System V/386 4.2 (possibly complete)
> ULTRIX-11 (at least 3.1)
> ULTRIX-32 (2.0, which has been confirmed to build by someone else, and
> 4.2, which is also fairly complete)
>
> I haven't looked at any of these in depth, so I'm not completely sure
> of the status of any of them except for A/UX and ULTRIX
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-03 5:19 [TUHS] " Joseph Holsten
2023-09-03 10:42 ` [TUHS] " Ron Natalie
2023-09-03 15:48 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-03 11:25 ` Andrew Warkentin
2023-09-03 12:40 ` Marc Donner [this message]
2023-09-03 15:09 ` Andy Wallis
2023-09-03 15:59 ` Warner Losh
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