Table of ContentsThe Worlds of UNIX | 34 |
A brief discussion of the power and porability of UNIX which introduces the more detailed articles that follow |
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Mark Rollins |
The Evolution of the UNIX Timesharing System | 36 |
The origins of UNIX as told by one of the creators |
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Dennis Ritchie |
A Conversation with Ritchie and Thompson | 50 |
Microsystems talks with the founders of UNIX: a discussion of its beginnings, and the impact that making UNIX a product has had on its development |
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UNIX System V on the Miniframe | 58 |
Convergent Technologies' Miniframe runs the latest standard version of UNIX at a resonable price |
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John Malpas, Kathy O'Leary |
IBM PC/IX | 66 |
IBM has released a strong implementation of UNIX System III to run on the PC |
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Peter Brooks |
The UNIX Experience | 80 |
Discover this personal view of UNIX |
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Ron Gumbach |
The C Power Packs from Novum Organum | 84 |
The Power Packs offer a C environment for the PC that will allow you to begin developing code fast |
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Chris Howlett |
X.25 Communications Protocol | 92 |
How to build an actual machine for this protocol; the hardware details needed to implement the physical layer |
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Eric L. Beser |
Printer Networking with TurboDOS | 106 |
Learn how to configure a TurboDOS system with one or more printers |
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Tedd Kurts |
Editor's Page | 6 |
Conditions for portability... the S-100 bus -- a response to a reader |
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Mark Rollins |
News and Views | 8 |
Running MS-DOS under UNIX; IBM and UNIX; Morrow multiuser system; The top 10 harware; What dows advertising cost?; Quatation of the Month |
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Sol Libes |
The S-100 Bus | 12 |
The S-100 philosphy, and some thoughts on the MWRT signal |
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Dave Hardy |
The UNIX File | 18 |
Where to find key points on using UNIX; a plea for a wider range of UNIX topics |
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Ian F. Darwin |
MS-DOS Window | 24 |
Finding faults: How to spot trouble in your PC |
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Hank Kee |
The Graphics Palette | 29 |
The adventures of the direct hardware interface |
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David McCune |
Letters to the Editor | 116 |
This month... the WD2511 X.25 chip; a differing opinion on our editorial emphasis |
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Errata | 116 |
Todd Katz's PMATE-The Programmer's Tool availability |
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New Producs | 118 |
Sperry Personal Computer; Three new S-100 boards; Amdek 5055 Printer; Remote switch for PC-XT; Lattice Window; UNIX-like system preloaded on hard disk |
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