[TUHS] Alternative Implementation Proposal for Unix/370 (BTL, 1979)

[Ron Natalie]

They liked kicking a dead whale down the beach.  

> On May 6, 2022, at 09:39, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> Tom Lyon via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
>> I was (re?)introduced to Chuck Haley recently and discovered he had a copy
>> of a Bell Labs memo from himself, London, Maranzaro, and Ritchie.  They
>> suggest that the path pursued to get UNIX running in/under TSS/370 was the
>> hard way to go.
>> 
>> Enjoy:
>> http://charles.the-haleys.org/papers/Alternate_Implementation_Proposal_for_Unix370.pdf
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> - Tom
> 
> So, why, given the letter from these folks, including DMR, did they go
> ahead and use the TSS solution anyway?
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> Arnold