[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Jul 8 16:51:51 AEST 2024


On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:

> I believe the Supernova was an early and faster implementation of the 
> regular Nova.  A newer generation, still 16-bit, was called Eclipse.  
> MV was the ("NO MODE BIT!") 32-bit generation.  Or something like that.  
> DG then bet on the short-lived Motorola 88000 with a series called the 
> AViiON ("NOVA ii"?).

I'd never thought about that derivation!

-- Dave


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