Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Porting OSes (was DEC RISC Architecture) Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 90 20:19:02 GMT References: <4462@trantor.harris-atd.com> <107038@convex.convex.com> <15007@hydra.gatech.EDU> <10734@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <3607@stl.stc.co.uk> <9110@fy.sei.cmu.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <9110@fy.sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: > So a better chronology is: the idea of porting an OS was new in the > mid 60s; by 1970 several different groups had realised that the > real issue was not porting an existing OS but designing an OS to > be portable; by the mid 70s such OS were a reality. By the *early* '70s. UNIX first popped up in '72 or thereabouts. (And my own experience with Tripos, as its incarnation in the Commodore Amiga, is less than thrilling...) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com