30 Dec
2023
30 Dec
'23
1:44 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 12:29 AM Jonathan Gray <jsg(a)jsg.id.au> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 06:30:28AM +0000, segaloco via
TUHS wrote:
Nice finds. I thought I'd found all the papers on early unix... and i had
no idea of this one. Thanks.
Warner
Warner
In S.S. Pirzada's 1988 paper[1], page 35,
section 3.3.2, he writes:
"Some operating telephone companies and the switching control center
system (SCCS) group in Holmdel, NJ decided to use UNIX to collect
maintenance data from their switches and for administration purposes.
Other departments also started building applications on top of UNIX,
some part of turnkey systems licensed by Western Electric (WECo)."
This is describing the situation before the establishment of USG
in September 1973. I'm curious, does anyone recall what some of
these pre-USG WECo "turnkey systems" were?
Perhaps a reference to COSNIX/COSMOS?
described by Henry Spencer in
https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.unix.wizards/1985-May/002932.html
and by Alan E. Kaplan in
"A History of the COSNIX Operating System: Assembly Language Unix 1971
to July, 1991." USENIX Winter 1992 Technical Conference, pp. 429-437
https://archive.org/details/winter92_usenix_technical_conf/page/428/mode/2up