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 wrote: > On 9/2/23, Joseph Holsten 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 >