[Info-vax] XENIX VAX / PDP

Supratim Sanyal <"supratim sanyal "qcocal::sanyal\"" at NOSPAM.X.mim.X.update.X.uu.X.se.NOSPAM
Sun Sep 29 11:04:57 EDT 2019


On 09/29/2019 08:09 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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?

No idea, but I followed this: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_32v_on_SIMH

> 
> 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

Fascinating stuff! BTW as you know doubt must be aware of, I also 
chanced upon a x86 port by Robert Nordier: http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/#





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