🚀 go-pugleaf

For those who weren't able to attend the USENIX conference held
in Áustin, Texas; perhaps some of the following will be of use
(the UNIX/370 "rumor" in my last issue of unix-wizards prompted
this note).  I might note that I take responsibility for any
errors in the material presented below.

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Western Electric announced the following "new" products:

		1st CPU		Additional	OEM	Educational
Product				   CPU		CPU
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UNIX/1100	$30K		$10K		$12K	$400
(For UNIVAC 1100, runs under EXEC 8)
UNIX/6000	$30K		$10K		$12K	$400
(For Honneywell 6000, runs under GECOS)
C/SEL		$5K		$2.5K		$2.5K	N/A
C/Data General	$5K		$2.5K		$2.5K	N/A
(Cross compiler, PDP-11 -> DG)
C/8086		$5K		$2.5K		$2.5K	N/A
(Cross compiler, PDP-11 -> 8086)

[Notes: N/A - Not/Applicable (WECO considers these packages tools
 and as such are not subject to an acadåmic discount); K = $1000]

It was not clear what each compiler package included (i.e. assembler,
loader).  Later discussions indicate with Larry Iseley (sic?) of WECO
indicate that the C/8086 package includes compiler, assembler, loader,
debugger, and external+internal documentation (probably just the tour
through the Ritchie compiler).

UNIX 3.0 may be out by the 1st of the year, 4.0 not for a while
(holding off to see what becomes of the anti-trust suit)

Upgrade credit is likely to given for UNIX 3.0, if and when 4.0 is
released.

UNIX 3.0 is claimed to run on everything from an 11/23 to an 11/780.
(That I've gotta see.)

Their most current UNIX licensing figures were:

		LICENCEES

Product		Commercial	Educational	Government	Total
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mini UNIX		 6		 98		 5	  104
V6			89		319		42	  450
PWB			38		 43		53	  134
V7			78		176		18	  272
32V			33		 74		11	  118
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		       244		710	       124	 1078

		INSTALLATIONS

Product		Commercial	Educational	Government	Total
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mini UNIX		 8		265		 0	  273
V6		       141		775	       123	 1039
PWB			70		132		60	  292
V7			86		423		22	  531
32V			36		121		11	  168
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		       341	       1716	       216	 2073
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DEC announced the following:

PDP-11's under DEC maintenance may acquire a UNIX diagnostics system
for use by field service people.

[As always,] DEC is trying to get field service to be more responsive to
UNIX users (they have UNIX courses for field service people, etc.)

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BBN claims their C/70 is now as powerful, if not more, than an 11/70
  due to microcode changes (I might temper this statement by adding that
  their claim is based on an evaluation of overall system comparison.)

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George Gobel (at Purdue) is trying to unload a virtualy unused 11/44 which
he has been using as a "UNIBUS teminator" for his 11/780

He has software which can be used to monitor the VAX in real time through
a memory window (also debugging tools) -- all this stuff runs on the
aforementioned 11/44

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	sam leffler