[TUHS] PCC for the i386

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Fri Jul 12 13:44:25 AEST 2019


On 2019-07-11 11:50, A. P. Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Clem cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>> 
>> With the original system V, all of AT&T, Intel and IBM paid 
>> Interactive Systems Corp (aka ISC) to port the System V/Vax code to a 
>> 386 ps/2 and an Intel reference system that used an ISA bus.  This 
>> would be eventually released in source at the 386 port from AT&T.   As 
>> part of the contract summit supplied the compiler
>> 
> <snip>
> 
> Did Sun have anything to do with that? I seem to recall something
> called "Interactive Unix" for the 386, possibly marketed by Sun...

ISC was acquired by Eastman Kodak in 1988, who eventually sold 
Interactive Unix to Sun in 1991.

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Michael Parson
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