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- Wollongong Interdata 6th Edition Unix
-
- Sixth Edition Unix was ported to the Interdata 7/32 at the University
- of Wollongong, Australia during 1976-77. Porting the C compiler and
- operating system kernel, writing device drivers and an assembler for
- the 32-bit Interdata architecture, and adaptation of most commands was
- done by Richard Miller. Other work on commands and subroutine
- libraries was done by Ross Nealon. The project was supervised by
- Professor Juris Reinfelds.
-
- For further information, see:
- R Miller, "Unix, a Portable Operating System?", ACM Operating
- Systems Review, 12, pp 32-37 (1978)
- R Miller, "The First Unix Port", Proceedings of USENIX 1998 Annual
- Technical Conference: Invited Talks, pp 21-25 (1998); available
- online at http://www.usenix.org [ miller.ps in this directory ]
-
- Distribution Contents
-
- This is a distribution of "Release 1.2" made on 3 June 1979. The
- original 9track 1600bpi tape held three files, which are gzipped
- here as:
-
- boot.tp.gz
- a bootable 'tp' format archive containing Interdata Unix kernels
- configured for Wollongong, Sydney (Sydney University or UNSW?)
- and Oxford (Programming Research Group)
-
- root.gz
- a binary image of the root filesystem on a 5 megabyte disk, in
- Interdata 6th edition Unix format (like PDP-11 6th edition format,
- but with ints byte-swapped and expanded to 32 bits); includes
- copies of the kernels and boot block from the first tape file,
- and kernel source in /usr/sys
-
- src.tp.gz
- a 'tp' format archive containing command source and manual pages;
- besides the original Bell Labs and Wollongong source there are
- contributions from Melbourne University and various USENIX
- distribution tapes, adapted as appropriate for the Interdata
-
- For convenience, the distribution contents are also supplied as:
-
- interdata_v6.tar.gz
- a 'tar' format archive (with dates preserved) of all files as
- they would appear after installing the distribution, with source
- and documentation in /usr/source and /usr/doc respectively; note
- however that special files in /dev appear as ordinary files
-
- -- Richard Miller <r.miller@acm.org>
-