[TUHS] ACM Fellow, Ken Thompson

[Heinz Lycklama]

No relation to either V32 or V7. When we started the project
we used the existing version of UNIX that we were selling on
the PDP 11/45 and PDP 11/70 computers. I believe it was V6.
I wrote a lot of documentation and gave a lot of talks and
presentations on the system, but never kept any of the
documentation myself. There may be some documentation
in someone's archives but I did not keep any.

Heinz

On 1/19/2021 2:33 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:30 PM Heinz Lycklama <heinz at osta.com 
> <mailto:heinz at osta.com>> wrote:
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>     INTERACTIVE Systems Corp. (ISC) also ported a UNIX system to an
>     early VAX 11/750 computer running DEC's VMS operating system
>     starting in mid- 1978. ISC was in the business of porting the
>     UNIX operating system to many different computer hardware
>     architectures, mini-computers to mainframes, but the first
>     complete UNIX system port was actually done to the DEC VMS
>     system. We delivered the first UNIX on VMS system to a customer
>     in the Fall of 1979.  Many of these systems were delivered to
>     customers in North America as well as in Europe well into
>     the mid-1980's.
>
>
> What relationship, if any, does this have to V32? Or maybe "Was that 
> based on V7 or V32?" is the right question...
>
> Also, this wasn't something that I had on my list... Any chance 
> there's a paper / article / etc on this?
>
> And thank you for your remembrance...
>
> Warner
>
>     Heinz
>
>     On 1/15/2021 6:29 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
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>>     On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:18 PM John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org
>>     <mailto:cowan at ccil.org>> wrote:
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>>         On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:14 PM Dave Horsfall
>>         <dave at horsfall.org <mailto:dave at horsfall.org>> wrote:
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>>             > Whose foray?  Not DEC's.  Eunice was built at SRI and
>>             sold by the
>>             > Wollongong Group, who must have had Downundrian
>>             connections.
>>
>>              It was
>>             originally developed ca. 1981 by David Kashtan at SRI[1]
>>             and later
>>             maintained and marketed by The Wollongong Group.''
>>
>>
>>         Where's the disagreement?
>>
>>
>>     Eunice post-dated DEC's first Unix offering by several years.
>>     They sold V7 and later V7M before rebranding it to Ultrix. Eunice
>>     was 4.1BSD (later 4.2 and 4.3) that Dr  Kashtan grafted into VMS
>>     in ways that... provoke strong feelings among reviewers...  The
>>     TCP/IP stack that was inside of Eunice would form the basis for
>>     Wollongong's TCP/IP offerings on VMS... A more refined version,
>>     also done I think by Kashtan, was marketed by TGV and there was
>>     always much rivalry between the two companies...
>>
>>     Wollongong got its license because they were the marketing
>>     company formed to market Dr. Miller's port to Interdata, and they
>>     later branched out significantly because their license was so
>>     special...  Or at least that's the story they told customers and
>>     internally... I never saw the original license to know...
>>
>>     Warner
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