[TUHS] Any Interdata war stories?

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM Jon Forrest <nobozo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 4/29/25 10:00 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
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> > And then they branched out, using their V6 license to do a number of other
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> > * Eunice for VMS (4BSD environment for VMS)
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> Minor quible - Eunice was developed by David Kashtan at SRI, but
> then maintained and marketed the The Wollongong Group.
> (I used it on VMS at UCSB in the early 1980s).

True, I mentioned it only because they used their V6 license which
had unusually favorable terms to do so... Which is an unanticipated
"long hand" of the interdata port into the late 80s and early 90s.

Warner

> Jon
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> P.S. A non-Unix Interdata memory. At UCSB we used 3 Interdata
> machines as terminal switchers. You could connect from a terminal
> in certain terminal rooms to any of a number of computers on campus that
> had support for the switching protocol. The names of the Interdata
> machines were "huey", "duey", and "louie". There was allegedly a
> fourth machine called "kablooey" that was used as a backup.