[pups] Re: History of 32-bit UNIX (was History of 2 BSD)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Tue Nov 11 14:01:53 AEST 2003
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> > I believe the Wollongong port predated the one at Bell Labs. Peter
> > Gray tells me he still has the original machine they used, and he'd
> > like to find a museum-like place to keep it. No idea whether it
> > runs. Greg Rose should know a lot more about this matter. Greg, are
> > you out there?
>
> Having the original Wollongong Interdata 7/32 might
> be interesting to the Computer History museum, though
> it might be expensive to transport it across the Pacific.
Perhaps this would be a better home for it:
http://www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/museum.htm
> As for dates: the Wollongong port was essentially
> contemporaneous with ours, certainly independent, [...]
I recall that they were aware of the 8/32 work, but couldn't use it,
because of the different architectures.
> Greg Rose is definitely still extant.
And I'll probably be seeing him on Friday (assuming he's in the country).
-- Dave
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