On 11/06/2015 01:05 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 11/06/2015 01:37 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
7. AT&T (but which one? 6300, 7300, or 3B2?) Not the 6300 it's an insignificant clone, Not sure about the other 2's significance. Sun vs AT&T, BSD vs SYSV was this on the 3B2?
No BSD stuff ever happened on the 7300 or the 3B2. That was all SysV. The latter two were most definitely not aimed at individuals, and very few individuals bought them. And I'd probably not consider a 3B2 to be a "microcomputer" anyway...I've seen 3B2s with thirty terminals hanging off of them.
Sorry didn't mean to infer that the 7300 or the 3B2 were anything other than AT&T (SYSV 3.x to 4.x, the 7300 had 4.0 but only internal to AT&T and it was buggy). I meant the 'wars' between AT&T vs BSD Unix. I actually don't recall AT&T Unix on much more than the AT&T machines, Sun machines and a few dual universe machines. Interesting times. None of the Unix machines were really what I would call microcomputers until we reach the start of Linux and PC BSD (was that what it was called initially ?). Now that I think about it, Sun had AT&T Unix also so it was AT&T vs Sun vs BSD. The GNU software eased that bit since you could pop onto Archie/Veronica/Jughead/Comp.sources.* and grab to software to compile away. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies