[TUHS] What sparked lint? [Was: Unix stories]

Chet Ramey chet.ramey at case.edu
Fri Jan 6 07:17:49 AEST 2017


On 1/5/17 3:55 PM, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> I recall at the Delaware Usenix conference (in 1979?) a professor from Case
> Western gave a talk about his port of UNIX to some Interdata or Data
> General or something.  He said that when he booted it up, it said "NUXI".

That might have been Sam Leffler and Bill Shannon's port of 7th Edition
to the Harris/6.  Somewhere I have both their MS theses describing it.

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