Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:38:38 -0500 (CDT) From: reed@reedmedia.net To: TUHS main list Subject: Re: [TUHS] 8th Edition timeline Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Clem Cole wrote: ... > kernel support to?handle?select(2) properly).? I remember talking to Sam (arguing > with him most probably) about it one night before it was fully created.? ?Iwant > to say, he had worked on something similar at the firm he was at (the firm > name I now forget -- si-mumble -- they were in Mt. View) before he joined > CRSG.? I don't remember now the issues I had, but I do remember it was a bit > of mess to support the way the AP hardware assumed it could do DMA on the > UBA[2] From my notes: After graduating, Leffler got a job in the Silicon Valley at Sytek, a small firm in Sunnyvale. % CITE: archives/csrg-archives/disk1/mnt/2.79/usenet/netdir/sites/sytek They used a PDP 11/45 and moved to a VAX 11/750 running VM/UNIX with four 300 baud ACU's (Automatic Call Units aka ``modems``) --- they marketed a broadband network to connect thousands of stations using coaxial cable over a distance of 40 miles. % maybe CITE: http://books.google.com/books?id=AyZfLaxYr9YC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq= %28408%29+734-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=SYGI9rBAOV&sig=rxBo1SgfqdTLuNotXaa59nrR6 C4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20 734-9000%20%20sytek&f=false Since they were using a VAX and he had kept in touch with Joy, he was a beta-test site for 4BSD.\cite{salus1994} % NOTE: about sytek: an ad to find employees %http://books.google.com/books?id=ChMAmfS1nEkC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%28408%29+734 -9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=aS_yQznXAy&sig=6vA7NTbspu3gcf_jT2sOiUSRPZU&hl=en&sa=X &ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20734-9000%20%2 0sytek&f=false % NOTE: not to take over since no Sun then Leffler went to Berkeley to work with Joy\cite{billshannon2} in the fall of 1981.\cite{salus1994}.