[TUHS] Any Interdata war stories?

[Jonathan Gray]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:55:05AM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > From: Tom Lyon <pugs78 at gmail.com>
> >
> > I was pleased to learn that the first port of S to UNIX was on the
> > Interdata 8/32, which I had my part in enabling.
> 
> I would love to hear more about the Interdata port and what
> happened with it afterwards. Interdata seems to have disappeared
> into the dustbin of history.  And Unix on it apparently never
> got out of Bell Labs; I don't think the code for it is in the
> TUHS archives.

Tom described some of the C portability problems in
Inter-UNIX Portability

https://archive.org/details/CLanguagePortability_Sept77/page/n15/mode/2up
https://akapugsblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/inter-unix_portability.pdf

> 
> Was the Interdata system in use at Bell Labs for actual work once
> the port was complete?
> 
> ISTR there was a meeting with Interdata about changes in the architecture
> that Bell Labs wanted, that Interdata didn't want to make. What
> was the full story?

Steve Johnson on the hardware problems
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2023-August/001672.html

> 
> Any other info would be welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arnold
>