[Info-vax] XENIX VAX / PDP

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sun Sep 29 08:09:54 EDT 2019


In article <qmq4ac$2v4$1 at dont-email.me>,
Supratim Sanyal  <\"supratim sanyal"
 <"qcocal::sanyal\""@NOSPAM.X.mim.X.update.X.uu.X.se.NOSPAM> wrote:
>On 09/28/2019 08:46 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> On the other hand you could just run v7 and get all the good parts
>> of Xenix without all the bad ones.
>
>gunkies wiki worked perfectly. Who are T B London and J F Reiser?

Who is gunkie?

Tom London and John Reiser were the guys at Berkeley who did most of
the conversion of v7 to V/32 and 32-bittified Unix.  I believe that Tom
started the Berkeley tradition of putting haiku into source code comments.
--scott
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