On 11/25/2015 09:12 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

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I once had to admin one that was part of a phone switch.

That was a decade and 1/2 ago. I had actually forgotten about it.

- Derrik

What was the system (make/model)? I am trying to learn what goes with the manuals I have from 1983-1984 for Motorola V/68. Pretty early for this OS.

Now that I think about it, it might have been an 88K. It was embedded in the phone system. I don't remember the exact model. It was from the late '80's or early '90's as it was around 10 years old when I worked on it in the early 2000's. I was the UNIX support for the phone administrator. I seem to remember it about as much UNIX as Minix was. It has a command line, and basic utilities worked and networking was tcp, but it wasn't quite right. And the config files were all weird and not like the SysV or BSD systems I was use to working on at the time. I might still have some of my notes floating around someplace, but I'm not home right now. If I think of it, in a few days when I get home, I'll see what I can dig up. - Derrik

On 11/25/2015 2:24 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

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What was the system (make/model)? I am trying to learn what goes with the manuals I have from 1983-1984 for Motorola V/68. Pretty early for this OS.

Now that I think about it, it might have been an 88K. It was embedded in the phone system. I don't remember the exact model. It was from the late '80's or early '90's as it was around 10 years old when I worked on it in the early 2000's.

I was the UNIX support for the phone administrator. I seem to remember it about as much UNIX as Minix was. It has a command line, and basic utilities worked and networking was tcp, but it wasn't quite right. And the config files were all weird and not like the SysV or BSD systems I was use to working on at the time.

I might still have some of my notes floating around someplace, but I'm not home right now. If I think of it, in a few days when I get home, I'll see what I can dig up.

- Derrik

Here is what I posted on the subject on vintage-computer.com forum:

V/68 is also called M86KUN (Motorola 68000 Unix)

This version of UNIX might have a command set similar any UNIX ports (?) found on 680x0-based MACs or Amigas, but they're too new to be candidates for the 1983-84 docs I have.

My Motorola-based CPU SWTPc 6800 came with a 6800 microprocessor manual. With that in mind I am thinking that the M68KUN manuals I have were included with a mystery computer system that ran 68K UNIX. The same manual might have been shipped along with a number of different make/models that ran 68KUN or "V/68". I did not see any errata to indicate what system my copy of this doc set came with.

Candidates who might have included such manual with their systems:

Dataindustrier_AB's DS90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataindustrier_AB

SAGE II?

http://pctimeline.info/workstation/ says: Fortune Systems introduces the Fortune 32:16 computer system. It features a 6 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, 256 kB RAM, and runs Unix v7. Price is US$5000-11,000.

This reminds me: does anyone have copies paper or otherwise of the motorola MACSBUG program and source code for the 68k? It was once available on Motorola's BBS, but seems to be lost to time with regards to the modern internet. The only available version nowadays seems to be Apple's "Fork" of MACSBUG where they integrated it as the debugger with the older Macintosh hardware, 68k and PPC stuff. The original Motorola version was hardware agnostic and had source code with it to allow porting it to other platforms. -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com