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From: Charles H Sauer <sauer@technologists.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 15:47:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd992f7c-5791-05e3-9ecc-82c263c35f6b@technologists.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12445917.1513.1617740812263.JavaMail.root@zimbraanteil>

To try to answer Josh's questions:
- I used the machine from console, certainly pre-VGA, probably CGA
- I don't recall anyone else using it directly
- The primary purpose was uucp for mail and news, dialing into machines 
at UT-Austin
- I can't imagine having anything on it besides what was needed for mail 
and news
- my primary focus was AIX at the time, but hardware for AIX was scarce 
(https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2017/03/08/lets-start-at-the-very-beginning-801-romp-rtpc-aix-versions/) 
-- after I got an RT in my office, and, eventually, at home, the Xenix 
machine persisted for uucp, IIRC
- my memory was that the AT & Xenix were ok for the intended purpose
- I remember a friend questioning whether the AT was really adequate for 
9600 baud uucp, but I don't recall having problems with that
- it looks like someone kept it in place after I left IBM in 1989, since 
http://web.mit.edu/kolya/sipb/afs/root.afs/athena.mit.edu/reference/net-directory/maps/uucp.bak/u.usa.tx.4 
lists it in 1991

Charlie

On 4/6/2021 3:26 PM, Jim Capp wrote:
> Josh,
> 
> At the time (1982-83), Xenix was the only Unix available to me.  By 
> 1984, we upgraded to a full-fledged NCR 1632 system, with Unix SVR4.
> 
> Installation was through a VGA console and after it was up and running, 
> you could add serial terminals to your heart's content.
> 
> We mostly wrote our own software, but had productivity packages for word 
> processing, spreadsheets, and databases (non-SQL).
> 
> Xenix was my first experience with *nix.  I "caught the bug" and have 
> been working with *nix ever since.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Josh Good" <pepe@naleco.com>
> *To: *tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
> *Sent: *Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:11:19 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference
> 
> On 2021 Apr  6, 12:32, Charles H Sauer wrote:
>  > For much of my last few years at IBM, my uucp machine, ibmchs, was an AT
>  > running Xenix, probably that version of Xenix.
> 
> Hi. I'm curious about that Xenix vintage. How did you use that machine:
> headless from a serial terminal?, or at the VGA console? Was it "single
> user" or shared among several people? Did you run Xenix and only SCO
> provided software, or did you had third party software in it? Were you
> using it by choice as your favourite Unix, or merely because it was the
> only Unix you could have? Did you like living with Xenix? Did it have
> problems, o was it "setup and forget"?
> 
> If you feel like sharing that experience, thank you very much.
> 
> -- 
> Josh Good
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-06 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-06 15:35 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-04-06 17:09 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-06 17:32   ` Charles H Sauer
2021-04-06 20:11     ` Josh Good
2021-04-06 20:26       ` Jim Capp
2021-04-06 20:47         ` Charles H Sauer [this message]
2021-04-07 16:42           ` Josh Good
2021-04-07 18:04             ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-04-07  2:49         ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07  6:04         ` arnold
2021-04-07 16:01           ` heinz
2021-04-06 21:06       ` Clem Cole
2021-04-07  0:58     ` heinz
2021-04-07  1:37       ` Warner Losh
2021-04-07  3:38         ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07  2:30     ` Ed Bradford
2021-04-07  2:44       ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-04-06 20:20   ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2021-04-06 22:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-07  1:10   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-04-07  1:47     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-04-07  1:49       ` Jon Steinhart
2021-04-07  1:58         ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-07  2:31           ` Serge Burjak
2021-04-09 21:24   ` Michael Parson
2021-04-10  3:33     ` Ed Bradford
2021-04-10 15:12       ` Clem Cole
2021-04-10 15:41         ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-07  0:59 Jason Stevens
2021-04-10 18:12 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS

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