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
Received on Tue Mar 17 1998 - 13:03:28 GMT