Unix Is Dead. Long Live Unix!

The Register ^ | Tue 17 Jan 2023

[JSM_Liberty]

This year is the year of Linux on the everything!

[central_va]

We should offshore Free Traitors™

[fuzzylogic]

Wow...had no idea AIX was still maintained.

[Chode]

is c++ next?

[crusty old prospector]

I used to work on a Unix box back in the 90’s and 2000’s.

[caver]

I have some fond memories of UNIX.

[GaltAdonis]

[sasquatch]

whoson

Oh wait.

[Organic Panic]

My first engineering software ran on Unix. Can’t say I am nostalgic for it.

[KarlInOhio]

[1217Chic]

I loved it when I worked for ATT...wrote nice test cases and did online chat’s when working from home back in the 90s....

[old-ager]

> SCO

I had no idea that was still around. I developed on Xenix 286, Xenix 386 and SCO UNIX.

My understanding is that “Xenix” was the first commercial microcomputer port of UNIX. Oh and it was a Microsoft trademark! So Microsoft was first to market selling microcomputer UNIX. Just like the first Windows phones (which I had as well) — too early!

[nickcarraway]

In this case, they may have been offshoring it, because it’s only used overseas, and U.S. companies have upgraded.

[old-ager]

No way.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

[TChad]

So, as of 2023, open source really has won.

Congrats to Jamie Zawinski.

[Chode]

Fortran 202X...

[oldguy1776]

I remember HP-UX well...worked at the division that developed it...:) Yep I am that old...:) Used to setup the hardware it ran on at trade shows around the world. Best job I ever had.

Got to see the world courtesy of Hewlett-Packard. A great company back then. A mere shell of that company today.

[devere]

A monkey at a keyboard would need a million years to type a Shakespeare play, but could immediately begin entering UNIX commands.

[Myrddin]

Sort of a sad passing. I cut my teeth on a University of New South Wales fully annotated UNIX kernel in 1980. It was 1983 when I got my first UNIX login on a 3B20S at Pacific Telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup's machine was on our network and I was able to partake of his early C++ (CFRONT) on the 3B20. My daily driver was a UNIX1100 on a UNIVAC 11/92 mainframe. At home it was a TRS80 Model 16A with Microsoft Xenix running on a 68000 CPU. Later upgraded to a 68010 when demand page virtual was supported. An SCO Xenix on a Compaq at my desk ran an Oregon Software C++ compiler. It wasn't great. In 1986, I moved to a project to replace 186 PDP11 machines running COSNIX (early Bell Labs UNIX). Similar machines ran MERT (another UNIX). I place 80 UNISYS 7000 machines on the floor running a SysV/BSD hybrid kernel. I had to do extensive repair of device drivers for the MPCC communications interface, X.25 Level 2/3 networking and X.29 tty layers. The kernel CPU scheduler needed a rework as well. That work was distributed to the Bell system as the "Bellcore scheduler". I brought in HP-UX PA RISC boxes to do extensive distributed processing...all written in C++.

A special project I did for my current employer integrated the Mentat SysVr4 STREAMS into an HP-UX7 kernel on a 68040 CPU. The Spyder systems X.25 L2/L3, X.29 was integrated to the internal BSD TCP/IP stack with a home grown tunnel driver on top and a multi-LUN SCSI drive backported from HPUX 9.0. Over 250,000 lines of new code into the kernel. Lots of long nights, but delivered on time and defect free to the DoD.

I miss working in the kernal. Today, most of my work is in Linux. I'm working POAMs this week getting the current project security posture cleared for IOC.