Re: [TUHS] Saving the Unix Bits

One thing I'd like to see saved for the historical value is Pyramid OS/x. It was one of those things I'd have liked to see the internals of -- but I wasn't supposed to have that level accesss in Ed Services. It is an interesting mix of both the SysV and BSD environments and it's a shame it's probably completely gone now. I think the last work on it may have been at Siemens, since I think the last bit of Pyramid that was left was rumored to go to SVR4 (I was there for the DC/OSx transition -- I worked on the courseware fixes and beta testing). I heard from a friend that they may have gone to Solaris before the end hit. I think they were swallowed by Fujitsu. Amazingly, I heard some of my SVR4 courseware stuff ended up in illustrations used in Solaris courseware. My name was in the illustration of the password file. A trainer hired at least 5 years after me went to Sun and I hear some of my stuff went along for the ride. I long wished they had done the full Linux dual universe thing on a *BSD varient. I'd be running FreeBSD on my desktop if I could just watch Netflix with it. Linux, Windows and MacOS have enough pull for Google to port their Widevine Bill -- d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now! pechter-at-gmail.com On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 4:34 PM Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote: