Article 4841 of alt.sys.pdp10: Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sys.pdp10 Path: news3.best.com!news1.best.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!nntp.primenet.com!ix.netcom.com!netcom19!alderson From: alderson@netcom19.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III) Subject: Re: How in Hell did the Great Unix to NT Migration begin?? In-Reply-To: cdu@jawa.'s message of 26 Apr 1999 02:42:39 GMT Message-ID: Sender: alderson@netcom19.netcom.com Reply-To: alderson@netcom.com Organization: NETCOM On-line services References: <371be3e4.0@newsfeed.one.net> <7fri4v$3eq@weyl.math.psu.edu> <8LoU2.21349$tY1.13078@wbnws01.ne.mediaone.net> <87hfq5dd5j.fsf@banet.net> <7g0jqv$fbb$1@pravda.ucr.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 23:10:28 GMT Lines: 16 Xref: news3.best.com alt.folklore.computers:128903 alt.sys.pdp10:4841 In article <7g0jqv$fbb$1@pravda.ucr.edu> cdu@jawa. (chris ulrich) writes: > Okay, to make this post slightly on-topic: > how hard would it be to write/run X clients on a pdp-10 OS? It took Dick Helliwell most of the summer, 1993, to port X clients to Tops-20 on the KL (in anticipation of having them available on the Toad-1). It required that he first make Perl run on Tops-20; he did a presentation on the latter at the May, 1994, DECUS Symposia in New Orleans (L&T SIG, since there was no longer a Large Systems or Site/Management SIG to host it), and fix some problems--or create workarounds--in the C compiler and libraries. -- Rich Alderson Last LOTS Tops-20 Systems Programmer, 1984-1991 Current maintainer, MIT TECO EMACS (v. 170) last name @ XKL dot COM Chief systems administrator, XKL LLC, 1998-now