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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: DG UNIX History
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:16:44 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2211130613290.43868@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PCSN74fFWPo5TYOw2gB+cZnNfUTRMRdBMVEgEsKYA8fA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 12 Nov 2022, Clem Cole wrote:

[ ... ]

> (the infamous 'NUIX' bug from the Series/1 port probably being my 
> favorite tale).

That would be the "NUXI" bug (byte-swapped words).

> So to the hive mind, did anyone (DG themselves or a University) ever 
> build 16 or 32-bit tools for the DG architectures and do a UNIX port, 
> and if so, does anyone know what became of those efforts?  Is this 
> something that needs to be in the TUHS archives also?

I remember Tracey Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine"...  It ran some 
proprietary system, though.

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-12 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-12 15:54 [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-11-12 16:09 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-11-12 16:52 ` arnold
2022-11-12 17:05   ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-12 17:09   ` Miod Vallat
2022-11-12 17:12     ` Warner Losh
2022-11-12 17:39     ` arnold
2022-11-12 17:13   ` David Barto
2022-11-12 17:37   ` Brad Spencer
2022-11-12 18:04   ` Clem Cole
2022-11-12 18:36     ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-12 19:36       ` Clem Cole
2022-11-13  1:56         ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-12 19:16 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2022-11-12 19:31   ` Clem Cole
2022-11-14 11:44 arnold
2022-11-14 22:11 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-11-14 22:31 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-14 23:54   ` Warner Losh
2022-11-15  6:03     ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-11-15 15:11       ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-15 15:48         ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-15 17:47       ` Warner Losh
2022-11-15  1:21   ` Stuff Received

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