OTD 1977: The first #UNIX port boots at the University of Wollongong, on their Interdata 7/32.

[aka_pugs@mastodon.social]

OTD 1977: The first #UNIX port boots at the University of Wollongong, on their Interdata 7/32.

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/bits/Interdata/32bit/unix/univWollongong_v6/miller.pdf

At Princeton, we were the first to *start* a UNIX port, but it was not completed until I went to Amdahl.
Wollongong also beat out the Bell Labs Interdata 8/32 port by a few months

[vk2bea@mastodon.radio]

@aka_pugs Ah Wollongong ... https://youtu.be/o60GswkPzxc?si=LwMtnHHr87fSnbCR&t=129

[a@pdx.social]

@aka_pugs @me_ Incidentally, Richard Miller is also the main person responsible for the plan 9 port to the raspberry pi.

[me_@sueden.social]

@a @aka_pugs And to RISC-V!

[mikemccabe@mastodon.social]

@aka_pugs referenced in that article: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/357980.358014 - ‘The Unix Time-Sharing System’

[darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io]

@aka_pugs

Bloody ripper UNIX port.

Nobody named Bruce was involved.

[tarah@infosec.exchange]

@me_ @a @aka_pugs it’s going to change everything.