IBM to support UNIX on 4300

[Phil Ngai]

> With all this talk about IBM's port of UNIX to the 370's, what about the
> version done at ATT?  It is described in pretty good detail in the Oct 84
> BLTJ.  Essentially, they got IBM to make some mods to TSS, and then put
> Unix on top of it. TSS deals with the i/o hardware and paging, Unix does
> everything else.  This isolates Unix from different hardware configurations
> (I/O channels, etc).

You must be kidding if you are proposing to run anything except
VM/CP on a 370 type machine. How many machines run TSS? Very few
I bet.
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