Re: Admired designs / designs to study


"Eugene Miya" <eugene@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have awareness of Unix running on BTL Univac 1100 machines.

Fortunately for me, my needs to run on 1108s and 1100/81 went away
and I could fight a battle for Cray. There is a BTSJ paper, and it gave
a chance to talk to Dennis and Ken over the phone. They were mostly
interested in the OS porting aspects. I should say Dennis. Ken is tired
about talking about U*x. Can't say that I blame him.

In article <KD0Jg.720634$Fs1.189371@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stephen Fuld <s.fuld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, Rick Thomas was the Univac expert that BTL hired (from the University
of Md) to help them with the port. At that time, various Bell companies had
lots of software systems running on Univac mainframes and wanted to run
more, but the lack of availability of Unix was a barrier. The system was
implemented and various Bell operating companies used it for various
you use critical phrases like this to verify: good.
systems. Eventually, Univac implemented a sort of Unix over Exec 8 system
and this was enhanced (the posix standard was a market driver here) into the
current systems which can look pretty much like Unix even with Exec 8 (now
called the 2200 Operating System) underneath. Pretty much like what IBM did
with their mainframes.

MCP, the operating system has some other fairly unique things as well, but
they are less related to the architecture of the system.

Need more info.

Better to get that from a true Burroughs user.

We trolled and got one post.

The problem is and will be convincing people who never used a system
to salient points to take away w/o sounding like bitter Multicians 8^).

I have to leave it to you guys to maintain the wikipedia pages in your
environments.

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