Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!oxtrap!rich
From: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Query about the quality of UNIX/PCs and 3b1's (really 3b1 unix)
Message-ID: <2519@oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 08:27:31 GMT
References: <9691@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <18017@clyde.ATT.COM> <997@bakerst.UUCP> <1146@mtunb.ATT.COM> <2420@oxtrap.UUCP> <2208@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: Oxford, Ann Arbor
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In article <2208@crash.cts.com> ford%kenobi@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) writes:
>In article <2420@oxtrap.UUCP> rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
>>
>>3b1 Unix was written by Convergent Technologies.  The C compiler is
>>the most obvious clue.
>The C Compiler, assembler, and loader are the standard 68010 tools from the
>"SGS" (Software Generation System) from AT&T.  They are essentially identical
>to the versions that would be found on any 68000 Unix System V (For example,
>the CounterPoint Computers 68020 systems, and the HP-350 68020 systems).

Well, I've found 4 major bugs in the compiler on the 3b1/7300, aka ct
safari, and the same bugs showed up on a burroughs xe550, aka ct
megaframe.  I do not see them on NCR tower's which look like 3b2 SysV.



rich.