From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199811262228.JAA13602@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Pro/Venix and Y2K
To: SHOPPA@trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa)
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:28:31 +1100 (EST)
Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Unix Heritage Society)
In-Reply-To: <981126115034.2a2004dc@trailing-edge.com> from Tim Shoppa at "Nov 26, 98 11:50:34 am"
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In article by Tim Shoppa:
> The following exchange recently took place on comp.sys.dec.micro/
> vmsnet.pdp-11/alt.sys.pdp11.  In it, I made the guess that PRO Venix
> is based on 2.9BSD - does anyone know more details about its heritage?

I understand that Venix is a cut-down SysIII in binary-only format. We have
SysIII in the archive in source form, if that's of any help. I doubt it will
have the device handler for the PRO 380 Time-Of-Year clock.

	Warren