Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Mike McGinn]

On Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:18:58 Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 12:04 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> > The story is then that Olson was so pissed off that he put the PDP-11
> > within 9 months in the market and when you opened the 2 boxes you didn't
> > find much difference.
> > I assume other computer veterans on this list can give better details on
> > this.
> > Any way on this site > http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11
> > the PDP11-20 is said to be set into the market in 1970 and ran several
> > OS. Unix (DEC name: Ultrix) was one of them.
> 
> Ultrix did not appear until after the AT&T breakup in the early 80s.
> Ultrix was a derivative of the BSD Unix work and ran on the VAX
> hardware. I think you could get a PDP-11 version, but I am not sure
> about that.  In the 70s Unix was put out under various research
> "Editions".  The last one from AT&T before the commercial System 3 was
> Edition 7.  I still have a paper manual for Edition 7 lying around the
> house somewhere.  Remarkably, the basic OS API and filesystem
> permissions and structure is very similar to any modern Unix or Linux
> system.  Any competent sysadmin or programmer familiar with Linux would
> feel right at home on Edition 7.

My first exposure to Ultrix was on the Alpha hardware. The later changed the 
name to "Digital Unix". It was not a bad system to develop on. Most of the 
places that I knew of with VAXes ran VMS, including the big physics labs.


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