KIRK.TYM%office-2@sri-unix.UUCP (02/27/84)
From: Kirk Kelley <KIRK.TYM@office-2> What has happened to the Virtual Operating System? In September 80 Communications of the ACM there is an article titled "A Virtual Operating System" by Dennis E. Hall, Deborah K. Scherrer, and Joseph S. Sventek all of LBL. This article defines a minimal set of virtual machine primitives and lists implemented utilities that emulate many of the utilities found in Unix. The primitives and utilities were implemented on a very wide variety of machines and operating systems. What is the current status of this project? Is it now an available product? We are interested in extending this work to support porting the AUGMENT Twenex system to UNIX. What is the best way to find a UNIX consultant in the silicon valley area? -- kirk
jacobson%lbl-csam@sri-unix.UUCP (02/27/84)
From: (Van Jacobson [rtsg])jacobson@lbl-csam The Virtual Operating System is being distributed. There are about 3000 sites running it, worldwide. The various users formed the non-profit Software Tools Users Group (STUG) in 1980 (the VOS was based on Kernigan & Plauger's "Software Tools"). STUG distributes versions of the VOS for various machines, manages a program library of software submissions, publishes newsletters and participates in the Unix user group (USENIX & /usr/group) meetings. I don't have an address handy but you can get more information from Nancy Travis, the STUG technical coordinator. Her mail address is: deerinck@lbl-csam.arpa or ...ucbvax!lbl-csam!deerinck -Van