From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rochkind@basepath.com (Marc Rochkind) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:32:29 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] shared memory on Unix In-Reply-To: <589225b2.YZDGL8idi2AuxrxR%schily@schily.net> References: <1b4095d8-047e-fa23-fc34-b1f8eb5c9d02@mhorton.net> <589219b1.U4yqSQ1D6ZJhjhk0%schily@schily.net> <589225b2.YZDGL8idi2AuxrxR%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: First, to explain a bit, BISP stood for Business Information System Programs (or something like that), and referred to a part of Bell Labs at Piscataway that was originally staffed by Telephone Company personnel, for the purpose of writing software for use by the Companies. The idea is that they would send people on temporary assignment, they would code up the programs, and then return home, job done. When I got to Bell Labs, in 1970 the operation was alive, but by 1972 it was obvious that it was a failure, so the organization was grafted onto Bell Labs (department numbers 9xxx), the temporaries were sent home, and Bell Labs people were moved in or hired. That gave me a great opportunity, so I transferred there. Vic Vyssotsky, a real blue-blood Bell Labs guy, went over to run it. My department head was Rudd Canaday, another genuine Bell Labs guy. That's where I did SCCS. I'm almost sure that SCCS/PWB refers to SCCS, not to the OS. By the time of this memo (1977) I was long-gone from SCCS, and was working under Rudd on a new system to produce telephone directories. --Marc On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Clem Cole wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Joerg Schilling > wrote: > > > > > Wasn't shmget() and friends added vor SysV past 1982? > > > > > > ???AT&T Unix naming get's weird as they hire marketing people that don't > > quite get it. > > > > V6 -> PWB [1.0 ~77] ---| > > | | > > + UNIX/TS[~79] -- +??? PWB 2.0 [~79] ----- PWB 3.0[~80] <-- > > internal name of release > > > > > > The "UNIX Support Group" - aka Summit - is supposed to be creating UNIX > > flavors for the different labs and operating companies and Research is to > > go back to doing research. Thus PWB 3.0 is supposed to start to be a > > BTW: Is this: > > /*---------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------*/ > PY-77-05(PWB PIB) 2/22/77 PY-77-05(PWB PIB) > > > TO: > > All BISP Programmer's Workbench (PWB) Users > > SUBJECT: > > Release 4.0 of SCCS/PWB > /*---------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------*/ > > Release 4.0 of SCCS or release 4.0 of PWB? > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: