[vcf-midatlantic] our new museum -- micro exhibit -- pick 28!

[Neil Cherry]

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.

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