29 Apr
2025
29 Apr
'25
7:54 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:55:05AM -0600, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Tom described some of the C portability problems in
Inter-UNIX Portability
https://archive.org/details/CLanguagePortability_Sept77/page/n15/mode/2up
https://akapugsblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/inter-unix_por…
From: Tom Lyon
<pugs78(a)gmail.com>
I was pleased to learn that the first port of S to UNIX was on the
Interdata 8/32, which I had my part in enabling.
I would love to hear more about the Interdata port and what
happened with it afterwards. Interdata seems to have disappeared
into the dustbin of history. And Unix on it apparently never
got out of Bell Labs; I don't think the code for it is in the
TUHS archives.
Was the Interdata system in use at Bell Labs for actual work once
the port was complete?
ISTR there was a meeting with Interdata about changes in the architecture
that Bell Labs wanted, that Interdata didn't want to make. What
was the full story?
Steve Johnson on the hardware problems
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2023-August/001672.html
Any other info would be welcome.
Thanks,
Arnold