[TUHS] Bell Labs Holmdel site coming down

[Lyrical Nanoha]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, patv at monmouth.com wrote:

> Another loss to the UNIX community that I can personally report was the
> closing, one year ago this month, of the old DEC Manalpan facility (UNX).
> This was the home of VAX System V, a large portion of Ultrix, and
> everything that made up OSF1/Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX except for kernel,
> drivers, and several other components (although I personally did some
> kernel work on occasion).  We did shell and utilities, about 1/2 of X,
> Motif, CDE, installation, mail, and other parts of the OS that made it
> useful.  If you look at old uucp headers anywhere on usenet, any of the
> traffic with headers that included systems with "unx" in the name was
> routed through this facility.  I was there from when it was Digital
> through Compaq and finally HP, almost all the way through to the closing.

It would be nice if CDE were free, the rest is either part of the Heirloom 
project or cloned in some open-source system (e.g., Lesstif). --;

-uso.