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====== Clem Cole's Student Experiences ====== | ====== Clem Cole's Student Experiences ====== | ||
- | I was a student, but working as a 360/TSS programmer and PDP-10/20\\ | + | I was a student, but working as a 360/TSS programmer and PDP-10/20 programmer in the CMU computer |
- | programmer in the CMU computer | + | |
- | dept mostly for free for them - as EE was my major. My girlfriend at\\ | + | |
- | the time was working for an EE prof and she got me to bring UNIX over\\ | + | |
- | from CS (EE had a 11/ | + | |
- | of course had numerious | + | |
- | Hydra. [CMU/CS actually ran UNIX on the ``pre-Hydra'' | + | |
- | was a CMU/3 River' | + | |
- | \\ | + | |
- | Anyway, I had access to the only 11/ | + | |
- | center where I worked - which was important because V5 and V6 really\\ | + | |
- | wanted to be booted on an 11/45. Dan Klein, who was math major, but\\ | + | |
- | like me, had a similar job to mine, working for the CS Dept to pay his\\ | + | |
- | bills. There was a lot of helping each other because the equipment we\\ | + | |
- | had was both common and complementary - so all the systems programmers\\ | + | |
- | tended to have ``guest accounts'' | + | |
- | the common threads with access to all versions of the HW were sort in\\ | + | |
- | the middle of moving this stuff around. | + | |
- | < | + | Anyway, I had access to the only 11/45's on campus in the computer center where I worked – which was important because V5 and V6 really wanted to be booted on an 11/45. Dan Klein, who was math major, but like me, had a similar job to mine, working for the CS Dept to pay his bills. There was a lot of helping each other because the equipment we had was both common and complementary – so all the systems programmers tended to have "guest accounts" |
- | \\ | + | |
- | </code> | + | |
- | Note: CMU/CS had already done the V5 to V6. EE never had V5,\\ | + | Note: CMU/CS had already done the V5 to V6 upgrade. EE never had V5, although any of us that had CS accounts has briefly used it there. |
- | although any of us that had CS accounts has briefly used it there. | + | |
- | < | + | In the fall of 1976 (I believe), Ted Kowalski shows up for his OYOC year in the EE dept after his summer at Bell Labs, and graduating U Michigan (he was once Bill Joy's housemate at Michigan in a strange twist of fate). He brought with him some stuff, including a photocopy of what would become K&R and copy of [[: |
- | \\ | + | |
- | </code> | + | |
- | In the fall of ??1976?? I believe, ted kowalski shows up for his OYOC\\ | + | Ted brought |
- | year in the EE dept after his summer at Bell Labs, and graduating U\\ | + | |
- | Michigan (he was once Bill Joy's housemate at Michigan in a strange\\ | + | |
- | twist of fate). He brought | + | |
- | of what would become K&R and copy of typesetter C, and a copy of\\ | + | |
- | UNIX/TS. He also brought his cool (but unfinished) program he had\\ | + | |
- | started | + | |
- | the tutorial guidence of tjk was my first real introduction into UNIX\\ | + | |
- | file system internals] | + | |
- | < | + | In 1977/78 Dan and I would start to work from CMIR – CMU's Industrial Research arm which had a new group start up a person who originally had an appointment in EE (Ron Krutz) - CMIR was the " |
- | \\ | + | |
- | </code> | + | |
- | Ted brought back to AT&T to the 11/34 support and eventually 11/34A and\\ | + | The folks at CMIR promised |
- | RK07 support | + | |
- | upcomming 7th edition. Ted wanted | + | |
- | into the main line at AT&T, because it was clear that was going to be\\ | + | |
- | system most people bought from then on. We keep asking when it was\\ | + | |
- | going to be released. While CMU was not the first V7 licensee - thanks\\ | + | |
- | to Ted, we were very early. | + | |
- | \\ | + | But the point is: Ted brought TS to CMU as a post V6 system. Some of the CMU changes |
- | In 1977/78 Dan and I would start to work from CMIR - CMU's Industrial\\ | + | |
- | Research arm which had a new group start up a person who originally had\\ | + | |
- | an appointment in EE (Ron Krutz) - CMIR was the ``Mellon Institute'' | + | |
- | part of Cargnie-Mellon Univ). They worked with industry and even took\\ | + | |
- | on profit | + | |
- | from EE to be the basis and added to write a driver for the newest DEC\\ | + | |
- | disk (CMIR had serial #3 RK07 and a very early 34A). Ted was a little\\ | + | |
- | nervious about the license, as CMIR was doing a lot of stuff in the | + | |
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