[TUHS] Government-Issue UNIX?

[Stuff Received via TUHS]

On 2025-10-11 22:00, Tom Perrine via TUHS wrote:
> I have what should be the "final" source tree for KSOS - as it existed when
> the Logicon work finished. I will dig it up.
> 
> What I'm missing is the toolchain - Modula compiler, etc. I don't think I
> have the VaX KSOS032, but I will look.
> 
> I will dig it up after my vacation ends in 10 days or so.
> 
> --tep (Tom Perrine)

Any word on this?

Hoping that your vacation unfolded as planned,
john


> 
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM Wesley Parish via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
>> And the question that keeps recurring to my mind, is, what happened to
>> the source trees of these "exotic beasts" in the Unix menagerie? Any
>> chance they'd be freed any time soon?
>>
>> Wesley Parish
>>
>> On 10/10/2025 00:57, Douglas McIlroy via TUHS wrote:
>>> When Jim Reeds and I were making the IX multilevel-secure Unix
>>> (1987-88), an Orange-Book-compliant Unix was being made for the
>>> government at BTL's Whippany Lab. There was some communication between
>>> the two projects, but different objectives led to significantly
>>> different systems.
>>>
>>> Did the Whippany product become KSOS, or did DOD end up with two
>>> "secure" Unixes?
>>>
>>> Doug
>>