[TUHS] Any Interdata war stories?

[Tom Lyon]

I found this USENIX paper from Steve Johnson that has a lot of detail about
the
Interdata port (postscript format):

"C and the AT&T Unix Port--A Personal History"
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/invited_talks/johnson.ps


On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM <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.
>
> 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?
>
> Any other info would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold
>
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