[TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX")
Jason Stevens
jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com
Wed Mar 15 04:59:00 AEST 2017
It would certainly explain the -m68000 flags, in the announcement it only mentioned the sun and Vax
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mod.compilers/ynAVuwR7dPw
As always the more info from prior to the 0.9 announcement is interesting!
On March 15, 2017 2:31:32 AM GMT+08:00, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>
>On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Jason Stevens <
>jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com <mailto:jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com>
>>
>wrote:
>
>
>βiβ
>t originally targeted the 68020
>
>
>βIt ran on the 68000 before the *20. rms had access to Masscomp box
>we
>gave him fairly early on.β I remember pitching to our exec's trying to
>get him more HW and trying explain who he was to them at the time.
>That
>would have been late 85. He may have had access to that system
>before he got a Sun but I don't remember. That said, I'm sure the
>MC-500 was not the first 68000 he had access. I think he was using HW
>in Steve Ward's lab that the Trix guys were developing with TI and he
>might have had access to an Apollo system. If we can find Jack test he
>might remember, Noel do you remember how that went down?
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