Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-08 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 02:00, Stefan Skoglund wrote: > > Well in some way or another i got a copy with the book to Sweden. > > Ran it from 1999 to 2002 or so (got a SGI challenge S as NetBSD machine > and a pc as a linux machine at that time in 2002 or so.) > > Host was a 6100 with the Apple tilt

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-07 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
sön 2020-01-05 klockan 21:54 +0100 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > wrote: > > I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original > > 6 > > people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 > > for > > PPC.

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 23:41 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 23:30, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > wrote: > > > > Yes. We first started with Mach 3.0 build MK58. We did our final > > fork at MK68. We made some *significant* changes from what CMU > > had (things like

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 23:30, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: > > Yes. We first started with Mach 3.0 build MK58. We did our final > fork at MK68. We made some *significant* changes from what CMU > had (things like changing mach messages from IPC to RPC) and a > whole lot of work in the area of

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 21:54 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > wrote: > > I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original 6 > people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 for > PPC. The way

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 20:58, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: > > Just to clarify, the reference to "i810 RISC" should be the i860 > ("N-10"), their second general-purpose RISC design - versus the 960MX > from the BiiN project with Siemens in the mid-80s as their first (?), > which would become

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: > > I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original 6 > people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 for > PPC. The way thatthe microkernel project was structured was that most > of the "OS" was

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Steven M Jones via cctalk
On 01/05/2020 07:02, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: OS/2 was to be morphed into a cross-platform o/s, >> to wean folks from dos/x86. > True, but what few remember now is that as well as OS/2 1 (80286) and OS./2 2 (80386), there was also OS/2 3 (CPU-independent). It was initially

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 03:56 -0500, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: > A lot of odd PPC work happened in a group a friend worked for > inAustin TX, but not sure if they did Netware work there.? There was > a lot ofOS2 work there as well, but that's off track a bit more. > thanksJim > I was lead

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 09:56, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: > > On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > > > > > Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly > > > > > there was > > > > >

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 1/5/2020 12:56 AM, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly there was some attempt at Apple to put it on

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: > On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > > > > Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly > > > > there was > > > > some attempt at Apple to put it on what later became the > > > > Network