[TUHS] Any Interdata war stories?

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Thanks for this, and to everyone else who replied. I'm guessing
the hardware problems prevented the system from being used further.

Thanks,

Arnold

Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:

> 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
> >