[TUHS] Re: UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370

[Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>]

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There was a track of USENIX 1986 called "UNIX on Big Iron."  Peter Capek of
IBM was the chair and Gene Miya and Jim Lipkis rounded out the program
committee.  The proceedings are available.

Program included:

   - User Requirements for Future-nix - Gene Miya
   - Experience with Large Applications on UNIX - Bob Bilyeu
   - UNIX Scheduling for Large Systems - Jeffrey Straathof, Ashok Thareja,
   Ashok Agrawal
   - A Straightforward Implementation of a 4.2BSD on a High Performance
   Multiprocessor - Dave Probert
   - Porting UNIX to the System/370 Extended Architecture - Joseph R Eykholt
   - Full Duplex Support for Mainframes - Don Sterk
   - Concentrix -- A UNIX for the Alliant Multiprocessor - Jack Test
   - A User-Tunable Multiprocessor Schedule - Herb Jacobs
   - Considerations for Massively Parallel UNIX Systems on the NYU
   Ultracomputer and the IBM RP3 - Jan Edler, Alan Jottlieb, Jim Lipkis
   - UNIX of CTSS for the Cray-1, Cray X-MP, and Cray-2 Supercomputers -
   Karl Auerbach, Robin O'Neill
   - Experience Porting System V to the Cray 2 - Tim Hoel

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:38 PM Phil Budne <phil@ultimate.com> wrote:

> The October 1984 BSTJ article by Felton, Miller and Milner
> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherports/ibm.pdf
>
> Describes an AT&T port of UNIX to System/370 using TSS/370
> underpinnings as the "Resident System Supervisor" and used as the 5ESS
> switching system development environment.
>
> I also found mention at http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09
> chapter 9 of http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ with footnote 96:
>
>       Ian Johnstone, who had been the tutor at University of New
>       South Wales working with Professor John Lions, was one of the
>       researchers invited to Bell Labs. He managed the completion at
>       AT&T Bell Labs of the port of Unix to the IBM 370 computer. See
>       "Unix on Big Iron" by Ian Johnstone and Steve Rosenthal, UNIX
>       Review, October, 1984, p. 26. Johnstone also led the group that did
>       the port to the AT&T 2B20A multiprocessor system.
>
> I found
>
> https://ia902801.us.archive.org/3/items/Unix_Review_1984_Oct.pdf/Unix_Review_1984_Oct.pdf
> "BIG UNIX: The Whys and Wherefores" (pdf p.24), which only offers
> rationale.
>
> Also:
>
>         "IBM's own involvement in Unix can be dated to 1979, when it
>         assisted Bell Labs in doing its own Unix port to the 370 (to
>         be used as a build host for the 5ESS switch's software). In
>         the process, IBM made modifications to the TSS/370 hypervisor
>         to better support Unix.[12]"
> at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX#cite_ref-att-s370-unix_12-0
>
> Is there any other surviving documentation about the system?
> Any recall of what branch of AT&T UNIX it was based on?
>
> Thanks!
> Phil
>
>

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