[TUHS] Government-Issue UNIX?

[Tom Perrine via TUHS]

Apologies. Work has intruded.

I'll dig it up this weekend.

--tep

On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM Stuff Received via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
wrote:

> 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
> >>
>
>