On 9/6/19 5:28 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Do a stack of ESIX System V disks mean anything to anybody here? My understanding is that it's Unix System V for AT&T. I am unable to read the disk contents outside of a PC disk drive.
Yep. I used to run ESIX on my home system in the erly '90s. Cost me $1,300 back in the day for an unlimited user development system. At that point, there weren't many options for Unix on a 386/486. SVR4 has all the goodies: networking, X11, BSD utilities, compilers. Distributed by Everex.
Everex did more than distribute it; they started with AT&T SysV, wrote most of the drivers, and integrated the BSD extensions.
I don't remember what format the disks are in.
The distribution I ran was on 5.25" HD (1.2MB) floppies. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA