History of OSs?

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Tue Mar 17 13:03:28 1998

On 17 Mar 98 at 10:03, Tim Shoppa wrote:

> > DOS was a translation of 8080 CPM-80 to 8086 by seattle computer. Unix
> > has been an influence but largely not that great.
> >
> > UNIX has it's own tree and there are to say the least many flavors some
> > of which even resemble each other.
>
> A good place to look for Unix history is
>
> http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/
>
> Tim.
>
>
 Byte-Oct.83 was a whole issue devoted to Unix on Micros and included
the last installment of a 3 part in-depth tutorial.
 While looking thru my old collection of mags , I also came upon a
full-page ad from MS intoducing Xenix- Unix v.7 OS for 16bit micros
in an Oct 23, 1980 issue of Electronics , an excellent mag that IIRC
was restricted to e-industry subs.
 Electronics-July28,83 also featured Unix with articles by Bill Joy
of Sun and Paul Jackson of Convergent Technologies kicking off a
series of articles. A sidebar gave the evolution of UNIX :

 BELL LABS Berkely Enhancements.
  
1975 v6 >>>>>>>>>>1977 1.0 Pascal EX
                                          1978 2.0 vi
1978 V7(Portable)>>32 V(vax)>>>
                                          1979 3.0 Paging(virt mem)
                                                          Lisp
                                          1980 4.0 Job Control;
                                                         Tuning;
                                                          Long variable
                                                            names in loader;
                                                                  Auto Reboot
                                          1981 4.1 VAX750, 730
                                                           support
                                                          Massbus,Unibus
                                                           support
1982 Sys III (AT&T Standard)
                                          1983 4.2 Network
                                                          support(tcp/ip)
                                                         Faster filesys.
                                                         Interproc.com.
1983 Sys V 4.2 on Sun
                                                           Diskless Work
                                                             stations
                                                           Graphics
                                                           Windows

Unix Development Machines
1977 PDP-11 >>>>
1979 VAX >>>>
1983 Sun >>>>

An attempt at reproducing it in e-mail.
Some good well-written articles.

ciao larry
 
lwalkerN0spaM_at_interlog.com
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