[TUHS] NUXI Problem

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Thu Nov 9 06:39:43 AEST 2017


Close it, was the Series/1 port not the Interdata.

It was reported at the 1980 USENIX by the folks from Cleveland State that
ported it.   The Series/1 was not byte-swapped.

Clem

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Nemo wrote:
>
>> What was that story about porting an early UNIX to a machine with
>> different char polarity?  I dimly recall only a few problems.
>>
>
> The NUXI problem on the Interdata 7/32, when the University of Wollongong
> did the port of Sixth Edition.
>
> I can't find a link to the actual story, but from memory the system
> printed "NUXI" out when it was first booted.
>
> Cheers, Warren
>
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