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Back when I was in University, we had an Amdahl mainframe with Unix running under VM. The directory structure included an awful lot of source code. I remember
by t1m 9y ago
Back when I was in University, we had an Amdahl mainframe with Unix running under VM. The directory structure included an awful lot of source code. I remember porting source for lex and yacc to my PC-XT running Borland's Turbo C. I assume it was licensed to Universities and source was included under an educational clause, though I'm not exactly sure.
I wonder which version of unix I was using. This would have been around December of '87.
- zokier 9y ago> I assume it was licensed to Universities and source was included under an educational clause, though I'm not exactly sure. I think that is exactly how BSDs got started, and later led to the famous AT&T vs BSDi lawsuit.
- Taniwha 9y ago'87 - probably a System VR1 variant (though it might have been from System III)
- hapless 9y agoIt was either CMS (a single-user UNIX-like commonly distributed with VM) or VM/IX aka AIX/370 (an IBM-flavored SysV, but almost totally unrelated to the other AIX products.)
- kjs3 9y agoI used VM/CMS quite a bit in the '80s; CMS is nothing remotely like Unix (or much of anything else outside of the IBM universe). VM/IX (nee IX/370) is not the same thing as AIX/370; IX was a joint development with ISC (who also wrote PC/IX) while AIX/370 was a joint development with Locus (who also wrote AIX for PS/2 and PC/RT). IX/370 faded away and AIX/370 evolved into AIX/ESA which allowed it to run as a guest VM. History lesson aside, since the OP specifically said he was using an Amdahl, he was almost certainly runnig UTS.
- kjs3 9y agoYou were almost certainly running Amdahl UTS.