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I hadn't heard about that UNIX "Princeton port" before. Thanks! Also TIL: Eric Schmidt worked on that port apparently ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UT
by gregw2 2y ago
I hadn't heard about that UNIX "Princeton port" before. Thanks!
Also TIL: Eric Schmidt worked on that port apparently ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS ), in addition to or around the same time as his ?summer? internship work at Bell Labs as co-author of Lex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt). That would have been before he went to Berkeley and then joined Sun as its first software manager.
Tom Lyons's 3-part blog post on the port (which he worked on) adds nice context and some fun to read technical tidbits and commentary: https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/12/370unixpart1/ https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/12/370unixpart1/
Aparently Eric didn't just work on the port, he recognized the technical pieces were in place enabling a port and organized the collaboration to carry it out. Although in a funny line in that same piece, Tom notes: "Eric, in a display of his future managerial potential, did not participate in the actual technical work, but deserves a lot of credit for working the system to make things possible."