Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Possible Phoenix Story of 3B1 Message-ID: <8604@gollum.twg.com> Date: 23 Jan 91 23:48:02 GMT References: <1991Jan20.160020.23406@uhura.neoucom.EDU> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 43 It is not true that the Unix C= is (or will soon be) selling is derived from the Unix-PC version of Unix. But this rumor does have a small basis in fact .. Namely that Mark Ditto (the guy doing/developing "Amix") happens to be a classy guy who likes "adb". Now, AT&T is a less classy organization and (for some weirdo reason) threw away adb in favor of "sdb". Probably has a lot to do with the quiche-eaters they have working at Summit (now USL) who don't hack Assembly language anymore. So he somehow arranged for C= to get a source liscense for the Unix-PC OS so that he could have an "adb" which understood the motorola 68k assembly language. (This was back when Unix-PC source liscenses were hard to come by). I don't think he brought over any other things ... er.. take that with a brooooad grin & a block of salt. *please*! :-) The part which I know for *SURE* is that they got a copy of Unix-PC/Unix so that Mark could have "adb". He said as much at the Unix PC BOF at Usenix a couplea years ago. The only real "phoenix story" for 3B1's is that you can still run 3B1 binaries on current Convergent Technology machines ... > The upshot is that there are some very affordable unix > configurations out there. The C-A 3000 bears looking at. Also the > Apple Macintosh SI, once the A/UX 2.1 release supporting the LC > becomes available, is a possiblity. Almost agreed. A/UX v2.1 is still a hacked up SysVr2.x isn't it? Do you have any idea how ***OLD*** r2.x is? Have fun, David -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- MS-DOS ... The ultimate computer virus.