[TUHS] First Unix-like OSes not derived from AT&T code?
Charles H Sauer (he/him)
sauer at technologists.com
Mon May 2 06:37:11 AEST 2022
Except to the extent discussed in my cited post, that seems overstated
to me, untrue through AIX 3 on 6K and RT hardware, unlikely to be true
post AIX 3.
On 5/1/2022 2:49 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> I don't know where the fellow got his information, but I was told that
> AIX started out as AT&T code, but went through not one but two rewrites.
>
> On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 11:55 AM Charles H Sauer (he/him)
> <sauer at technologists.com <mailto:sauer at technologists.com>> wrote:
>
> I don't recall that particular case, but AIX was definitely derived
> from
> AT&T code. See
> https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2017/03/08/lets-start-at-the-very-beginning-801-romp-rtpc-aix-versions/
> <https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2017/03/08/lets-start-at-the-very-beginning-801-romp-rtpc-aix-versions/>
>
> HOWEVER, when the 1983 transition happened and AIX became a primary
> site
> effort (as discussed in the cited reference), there were those new to
> the effort and new to Unix that thought they could redefine behaviors
> inappropriately.
>
> For example, I recall one person trying to enforce only one root login
> at a time. Larry made it quite clear to that person that we were not
> going to violate Unix tradition in that manner.
>
> Charlie
>
> On 5/1/2022 1:08 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> > in terms of rewrites from manuals, while it was not the first, as I
> > understand it, AIX was an example of "read the manual, write the
> > code."
> >
> > Unlike Coherent, it had lots of cases of things not done quite right.
> > One standout in my mind was mkdir -p, which would return an error if
> > the full path existed. oops.
> >
> > But it was pointed out to me that Condor had all kinds of code to
> > handle AIX being different from just about everything else.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 7:12 AM Kenneth Goodwin
> > <kennethgoodwin56 at gmail.com <mailto:kennethgoodwin56 at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I actually purchased several copies of Coherent when it was
> first released and used it as printer servers for a bunch of
> inexpensive Centronics based printers. lpd based server to server
> transfers. Took the printing burden off the main systems. Someone
> came out with a network based print spooler box (Milan ??) later on
> which I switched over to after MW passed into obscurity.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 1, 2022, 7:46 AM Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com
> <mailto:ron at ronnatalie.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Mark Williams Coherent was one I worked with on the PC many
> years ago.
> >>>
> >>>> On May 1, 2022, at 11:34, Andrew Warkentin
> <andreww591 at gmail.com <mailto:andreww591 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> What was the first "clone" functional Unix (i.e. an OS not
> derived
> >>>> from genetic Unix code but highly compatible with genetic
> Unix)? Idris
> >>>> is the earliest such OS of which I am aware (at least AFAIK
> it's not a
> >>>> genetic Unix), but was it actually the first? Similarly, which
> was the
> >>>> first "outer Unix-like" system (i.e. one with strong Unix
> influence
> >>>> but significantly incompatible with functional Unix)? Off the
> top of
> >>>> my head the earliest such system I can think of is Thoth (which
> >>>> predates Idris by almost 2 years), but again I'm not sure if
> it was
> >>>> actually the first.
> >>>
>
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