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

[Larry McVoy]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 12:59:14AM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Brad Spencer <brad at anduin.eldar.org> wrote:
> 
> > The later MV/xxxxx Supernova boxes could run Unix, I
> > believe... (at least I remember the university running Unix on a MV
> > series after I left).
> 
> I think these were called "Eclipse", and the story of their
> development is told in the famous book "The Soul of a New Machine".
> For you youngsters out there, it's a great read.
> 
> We had one at Georgia Tech, it ran a Unix emulation on top
> of AOS (or whatever it was called). Later on DG ported Unix to
> run on it native.

I've heard, but never verified, that they did a really nice SMP Unix.
If anyone has seen the code I'd like to hear what you thought.  The
way it was described to me, it sounded like an SMP SunOS.
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