[TUHS] Re: Early 70's WECo "Turnkey Systems"? Re: S.S. Pirzada UNIX Paper

[Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>]

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On Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 12:29 AM Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 06:30:28AM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> > In S.S. Pirzada's 1988 paper[1], page 35, section 3.3.2, he writes:
> >
> > "Some operating telephone companies and the switching control center
> > system (SCCS) group in Holmdel, NJ decided to use UNIX to collect
> > maintenance data from their switches and for administration purposes.
> > Other departments also started building applications on top of UNIX,
> > some part of turnkey systems licensed by Western Electric (WECo)."
> >
> > This is describing the situation before the establishment of USG
> > in September 1973.  I'm curious, does anyone recall what some of
> > these pre-USG WECo "turnkey systems" were?
>
> Perhaps a reference to COSNIX/COSMOS?
>
> described by Henry Spencer in
> https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.unix.wizards/1985-May/002932.html
>
> and by Alan E. Kaplan in
> "A History of the COSNIX Operating System: Assembly Language Unix 1971
> to July, 1991." USENIX Winter 1992 Technical Conference, pp. 429-437
>
> https://archive.org/details/winter92_usenix_technical_conf/page/428/mode/2up


Nice finds. I thought I'd found all the papers on early unix... and i had
no idea of this one. Thanks.

Warner

Warner

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