[TUHS] The Mark Williams Company and Coherent

Paul Winalski paul.winalski at gmail.com
Sat Mar 16 00:40:42 AEST 2024


On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 3:00 AM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another detail. There was lawyerly concern about the code being stolen
>
> There were similar issues at DEC when we ported VAX Fortran to Ultrix.
Especially with the port of the VMS linker, the piece of the project I
worked on.  We had a member of the Ultrix team writing the code to convert
VMS object file debug information to a.out STABs, but other than that the
team doing the port stayed clear of the Ultrix sources.

-Paul W.
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