[COFF] Article on bellmac-32 in Spectrum

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On Sunday, June 8th, 2025 at 10:59 AM, Stuff Received <stuff at riddermarkfarm.ca> wrote:

> From https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone
> 
> "The group wrote its own version of Unix, with real-time capabilities to
> ensure that the new chip design was compatible with industrial
> automation and similar applications."
> 
> Would that be in the archives?
> 
> S

If I had to assume this is probably related to DMERT and UNIX/RT.  I'm unaware of any surviving code, but I have tossed some manuals up on my archive.org page for a few 2000's-era releases of the UNIX-RTR Generics for the 5ESS switches of the time.

https://archive.org/details/5ess-switch-unix-rtr-operating-system-reference-manual-issue-10

Unfortunately I haven't secured any code from later UNIX-RTR releases either, just installation and maintenance curricula with some manuals and such thrown in.  There is some early MERT stuff bumping around the archive but it predates the BellMAC-32/WE32000 and 3B by several years.

- Matt G.