[net.unix] Motorola gets AT&T OK on 68000 port of UN*X System V

pcl@hlexa.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten) (03/26/84)

From: notes@hlexa.UUCP
Newsgroups: pr.presstp

MOTOROLA GETS AT&T OK, Computer Systems News,
Mar. 19, p. 4. Motorola has received
certification from AT&T of its UNIX System V
implementation for the 68000 microprocessor.
The new product is available immediately and
will be jointly marketed by Motorola and AT&T
under the name Unix System V, M68000 Version.
Hardware manufacturers and turnkey systems
vendors may obtain an object-code redistrib-
ution license from Motorola allowing them to
bundle 68000-based systems with UNIX-V.  AT&T's
deal with Motorola is seen as a boon to estab-
lishing UNIX System V as an industry standard.

mbs@ecsvax.UUCP (04/05/84)

I would like to note that at least one other corporation (Empirical Research
Group) already has a System V port on the 68000. I believe the port was done
by UniSoft, but I am not sure.....

   --- Michael Smith
       East Carolina University Computing & Information Systems
       Greenville, NC 27834
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ian@utcsstat.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin) (04/14/84)

	From: mbs@ecsvax.UUCP
	Subject: Re: Motorola gets AT&T OK on 68000 port of UN*X System V

	I would like to note that at least one other corporation (Empirical Research
	Group) already has a System V port on the 68000. I believe the port was done
	by UniSoft, but I am not sure.....

UniSoft has had System III and System V for ages, and there are
over fifty companies in the 68000 game with UniSoft UNIX ports.
On the other hand, the Motorola port is ``official'' (at least
to the marketing hypes at AT&T...). Time will tell which of the
two competing 68000 ports will prosper (if either): the one
that got there first, and made the 68000 a widely-used UNIX engine,
or the one that came along after from the same folks who brought
you the hardware.

Lest we forget, there is also XENIX for the 68000 and a few
in-house ports by particular vendors (several of them originally
UniSoft). Several UNIX-like systems are also available for the 68000.
-- 
Ian F. Darwin, Toronto  uucp: utcsstat!ian