From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:31:08 -0600 [thread overview]
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 3:01 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> Kevin/Charlie:
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 3:31 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Charlie, there is some interesting history of the pre-RS/6000 AIX
>> stuff here (you give a quote :)). Particularly page 41 gives a
>> chronology of UNIX at IBM:
>>
>> https://amaus.net/static/S100/IBM/RTPC/AIX%20Family%20Definition%201989.pdf
>
> Awesome - thank you,
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Prior to AIX the Series/1 had a UNIX port in the early '80s. I think
>> that work happened in Boca Raton.
>>
> FYI: the original S/1 port was done at Cleveland State with the Seventh
> Edition - the name of the Prof that led it I can not say I remember nor his
> HW configuration, but I do remember his presentation. It is where the term
> 'NUXI' was coined. I want to say in 1979 or 1980, they gave a wonderful
> talk about it. They had some help from folks at Case as they did not have
> a PDP-11 of their own and never seen UNIX before (*i.e.* they arranged to
> borrowed time on a PDP-11 at the EE Dept at Case. They wrote a new back
> end for the Ritchie C compiler, and recompiled everything, wrote new
> drivers for the S/1 HW and rewrote m40.s as needed. Then they wrote the
> disks, then drove the packs back to Cleveland State. IIRC it took a summer
> of work to complete).
>
> FWIW: The PDP-11 has an interesting way it does byte-swapping and when
> they first booted the system, the first message was NUXI which was how the
> S/1 saw the strings. The term was used from then on in the community to
> describe byte-swapping issues.
>
> I remember all of us in the audience howling with laughter when they
> described their work. Unfortunately, this was before USENIX kept
> conference proceedings so I'm not sure if the talk and paper were archived.
>
> And the truth is, I wish we had that port in the TUHS archives.
>
Me too. This is a port I had no clue about.... I'll have to put it in my
slides as "S/1 NUXI" :)
Warner
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-09 6:25 [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2019-09-09 6:36 ` arnold
2019-09-10 15:16 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 0:28 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 3:53 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-11 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 16:55 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was " Charles H Sauer
2019-09-12 19:31 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-09-12 20:59 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-12 21:09 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses - Series/1 NUXI Ronald Natalie
2019-09-12 21:31 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2019-09-12 22:30 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS jcs
2019-09-12 23:12 ` reed
2019-09-12 23:22 ` jcs
2019-09-12 23:29 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses Warren Toomey
2019-09-13 7:06 ` arnold
2019-09-13 8:30 ` SPC
2019-09-14 18:29 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-12 21:29 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS Charles H Sauer
2019-09-11 17:49 ` [TUHS] " Richard Salz
2019-09-11 17:52 ` ron
2019-09-11 21:44 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 18:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-11 18:18 ` Richard Salz
2019-09-11 18:54 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-11 21:05 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 21:34 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 21:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 22:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-09-11 21:59 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 21:50 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 22:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12 3:43 ` [TUHS] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 4:20 ` George Michaelson
2019-09-12 4:31 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 13:44 ` Tony Finch
2019-09-13 4:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 5:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-13 8:00 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-09-13 15:23 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 21:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12 4:28 ` [TUHS] SCCS Jon Forrest
2019-09-12 4:33 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 6:12 ` William Corcoran
2019-09-12 14:35 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-13 5:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-13 5:50 ` Bakul Shah
2019-09-12 16:45 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-12 17:29 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-12 17:47 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-13 8:12 ` emanuel stiebler
2019-09-13 21:11 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 21:17 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 21:48 ` Bakul Shah
2019-09-13 23:12 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 23:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-14 1:55 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 17:23 ` [TUHS] SCCS Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-16 20:31 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-17 17:57 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-18 8:48 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-18 17:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-12 20:07 ` Nemo
2019-09-11 16:05 ` [TUHS] PWB vs Unix/TS Paul Winalski
2019-09-11 17:14 ` ron
2019-09-14 0:44 ` [TUHS] a book (was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS) reed
2019-09-14 2:53 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-15 2:18 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 2:39 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 3:24 ` Adam Thornton
2019-09-14 22:46 ` Clem cole
2019-09-15 0:58 ` Adam Thornton
2019-09-15 3:30 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-15 4:21 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-15 5:17 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 20:14 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 20:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 20:12 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 21:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-15 23:27 ` Clem cole
2019-09-15 23:45 ` Richard Salz
2019-09-15 7:43 ` Andy Kosela
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