From: "Ronald Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First Unix-like OSes not derived from AT&T code?
Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 07:28:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em7b0be525-7292-4e5e-9b93-02f5dfa7fb9a@86b94e87.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtD08weh+97mx+ncrq0cxprKgke42C0vFYNPnBkd8Fx9Sg@mail.gmail.com>
We got in on the W4 from the IBM Federal Systems guy (later dealt out to
Loral, Martin Marietta, and then Lockheed-Martin). I started with
those guy doing a contract job to craft the second nework interface into
Secure Xenix (Jacob Recter I think was responsible for the first) to
provide a secure downgrading system for some government entity.
Then Intel developed the i860- and IBM came up with the Wizard card.
This was only designed to be.a coprocessor card and was done down in
Boca Raton. The fun and games with that one is that we were on early
steppings of the processor chips and spent a lot of time coding around
chip bugs (mostly with regard to interrupts). IBM/Intel had developed
this thing called hostlink that was supposed to be useful, but we
decided to port AIX to it. When IBM Owego came up with the W4, we were
asked to port AIX again to it.
We had one non-functional W4 kicking around for demo purposes that had 4
“delidded” i860 chips in it. I swapped one for an early stepping
(useless) chip and kept one of the delidded ones which I still have in a
box somewhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-03 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-01 9:30 Andrew Warkentin
2022-05-01 11:43 ` Ron Natalie
2022-05-01 11:56 ` Rob Pike
2022-05-01 14:03 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-03 4:37 ` Jim Carpenter
2022-05-01 14:09 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-01 18:08 ` ron minnich
2022-05-01 18:22 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-05-01 19:49 ` Dan Stromberg
2022-05-01 20:37 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-05-02 2:08 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-02 9:21 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-05-02 20:19 ` Rich Morin
2022-05-02 21:30 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-02 21:36 ` Dan Cross
2022-05-10 15:28 ` Mary Ann Horton
2022-05-10 16:08 ` Warner Losh
2022-05-10 16:40 ` Heinz Lycklama
2022-05-10 16:42 ` James Frew
2022-05-14 2:56 ` Mary Ann Horton
2022-05-10 16:59 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-10 17:18 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-10 18:05 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-05-10 19:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-05-10 19:08 ` Henry Bent
2022-05-10 19:33 ` Richard Salz
2022-05-10 20:18 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-05-11 16:20 ` James Frew
2022-05-11 16:51 ` Paul Winalski
2022-05-10 20:28 ` Henry Bent
2022-05-10 20:43 ` Warner Losh
2022-05-10 20:46 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-11 16:44 ` Paul Winalski
2022-05-11 17:09 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-11 17:35 ` Larry McVoy
2022-05-12 0:16 ` George Michaelson
2022-05-13 2:46 ` Adam Thornton
2022-05-15 0:48 ` Larry McVoy
2022-05-15 5:36 ` Adam Thornton
2022-05-15 13:37 ` Larry McVoy
2022-05-12 5:22 ` Warner Losh
2022-05-12 12:06 ` Ron Natalie
2022-05-12 12:43 ` John Cowan
2022-05-15 2:00 ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-05-02 2:42 ` Phil Budne
2022-05-02 6:46 ` Ron Natalie
2022-05-02 13:50 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-02 14:46 ` tytso
2022-05-02 15:38 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-02 20:31 ` Warner Losh
2022-05-03 5:01 ` tytso
2022-05-03 11:35 ` Richard Salz
2022-05-02 23:30 ` Gregg Levine
[not found] ` <CAK7dMtD08weh+97mx+ncrq0cxprKgke42C0vFYNPnBkd8Fx9Sg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-05-03 7:28 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2022-05-02 12:59 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-05-02 14:13 ` Richard Salz
2022-05-02 13:14 ` tytso
2022-05-02 13:32 ` Larry McVoy
2022-05-02 13:16 ` Dan Cross
2022-05-02 14:14 ` Miod Vallat
2022-05-02 14:50 ` ron minnich
2022-05-02 16:13 ` Al Kossow
2022-05-02 18:46 ` Miod Vallat
2022-05-02 19:54 ` Chet Ramey
2022-05-02 21:17 ` Dan Cross
2022-05-02 23:49 ` George Michaelson
2022-05-03 7:22 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-05-03 7:40 ` Miod Vallat
2022-05-03 8:03 ` Ron Natalie
[not found] ` <CAEoi9W4eD8AF=FwjMT-KPRfyYgD+qgVvE1u3sBwiovm4=1WWLg@mail.g mail.com>
2022-05-03 12:14 ` John Foust via TUHS
2022-05-01 20:55 ` Michael Huff
2022-05-03 4:55 ` Jim Carpenter
2022-05-02 15:43 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-02 16:16 ` Bakul Shah
2022-05-02 16:19 ` Bakul Shah
2022-05-02 17:14 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-02 16:29 ` Larry McVoy
2022-05-02 17:42 ` Clem Cole
2022-05-02 17:59 ` Bakul Shah
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