In article <71D30FA2B9D8D211AC9D00E02917E699041AD5@EAGLE>,
Peace, Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It's really amazing the number of people who don't recall the same
>discussion being held about UNIX almost 10 years ago.
You mean 20 years ago, at least. The first commercial UNIX system (outside
Bell) went into service in the mid '70s: an office automation system for a
legal firm. By the national computer conference in 1982 there were a dozen
commercial UNIX systems running on PDP-11s, Z8000s, and Altos' fantastic
multi-CPU schemes that let them handle page faults on the 68000 by running
two processors in lockstep.
I was working for Hydril at the time, doing software development for oilfeild
systems primarily in Forth and assembler. We purchased a Tektronix PDP-11-based
multiuser development system, and for the software development side of the
realtime industry (who were UNIX' biggest detractors, even I was suspicious
of UNIX-based control systems) it was the obvious choice. UNIX made software
development so much easier... you could test a realtime system on the
development system, replacing devices with plain files. Even the "big boy",
VMS with it's formal design, had to emulate UNIX to satisfy the developer's
needs.
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