Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Source for Unix??? Message-ID: <5855@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 01:19:39 GMT References: <15127@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Feb9.202455.29275@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> Distribution: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 17 >What would it take to get a copy of the source as just described? 1) a PDP-11, if you actually want to *run* it. 2) perhaps some amount of time on the phone to AT&T's (or USL's?) licensing arm, 1) explaining what V6 is to them and 2) finding out if they still license it (which they may not). 3) finding somebody who has a V6 tape, if AT&T no longer has one.... I don't know how much Minix source costs, but if you basically just want to look at the innards of an OS, that might be a better way to go. Some parts of the V6 innards still remain in many modern UNIX systems, so it may not be a complete waste (Minix differs internally from most existing UNIX systems; as I remember, it's more message-based). Minix is, I think, more V7-flavored in its programmer's interface, so it's quite a bit closer to modern UNIXes in that regard than is V6.