Article 141 of comp.sys.cdc: Path: matra.meer.net!news1.best.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!feed.nntp.acc.ca!newsfeeder.toronto.ican.net!news.uunet.ca!mks!news From: Tom Kelly Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Merced dual-mode vs. Cyber-180 dual-mode (was Re: Merced a VLIW after all?) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 09:38:29 -0400 Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc. Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <339C0755.4447@mks.com> References: <5mn7sf$4ei@tooting.netapp.com> <33932D4A.59E2@nas.nasa.gov> <5mvojb$fku@tooting.netapp.com> <3394993C.2F1C@nas.nasa.gov> <3395b50d.1930156@news.uni-c.dk> Reply-To: tom@mks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: pc-81.pc.mks.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Xref: matra.meer.net comp.arch:76554 comp.sys.cdc:141 Peter Bjoern wrote: > I agree with your point, but the NOS/VE system and CDCNET > ran (run) TCP/IP just fine, including the X-Windows system. > At some time, there was a Unix-like sub-system running on top > of VE called VX/VE. > It was not a great success since real Unix users did not > consider it to be 'Kosher' Unix. > For a short time, CDC talked about a native Unix for the 180 > series, but then they decided to go for the RISC MIPS line There was a native Unix for the 180 series, done (under contract to CDC) by HCR (R.I.P.), the same folks that did VX/VE. I was the technical architect at HCR for the native Unix. It was up and running at both HCR (in Toronto) and at Arden Hills. The port was pretty much complete as I recall, it passed the appropriate test suites; we ran one of our 180's as an NFS server at HCR. There were a lot of interesting problems involved in porting Unix to the 180. This was now nearly 10 years ago! Ouch! Tom Kelly tom@mks.com tom@ancilla.toronto.on.ca