From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early 70's WECo "Turnkey Systems"? Re: S.S. Pirzada UNIX Paper
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:28:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZY51Me-M5dphjSlU@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
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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
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2023-12-29 6:30 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
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2023-12-29 19:44 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
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