[TUHS] Any Interdata war stories?

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Apr 30 03:35:25 AEST 2025


On 4/29/25 10:00 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM <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.
>>

Two different ports.
TWG's port was written at the University of Wollongong, extensive
documentation and SIMH emulation survives.

No trace of the BTL port exists that I know of

Interdata was bought by Perkin-Elmer, Perkin-Elmer sold it to
Concurrent Computer Corp.




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