Michael EngelJun 5, 2025

In 1978, Prof. Verbaeten ported 7th Ed. Unix to the Motorola 68000 at KU Leuven in Belgium. This port is not archived at TUHS, only mentioned here:
https://eng.kuleuven.be/en/stories/50-years-of-computer-science-engineering
https://museum.cs.kuleuven.be/misc/Tim_Ameye_Sander_Van_Loock_40-jaar.pdf (p. 12)

There's also a paper describing the port which is not available:
Verbaeten, P., Berbers, Y. (1983). Porting Unix. In: Proceedings of UNICOM Conference, San Diego.

If you happen to have pointers to any of this, I would be happy to hear from you!

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Show threadAlexander BochmannJun 5, 2025
@me_ That document is on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/1983-proceedings-unicom-san-diego/page/285/mode/2up
1983 UNICOM Conference : USENIX Association : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

UNICOM Conference ProceedingsJanuary 25, 1983San Diego, CA, USA

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Show threadMichael EngelJun 5, 2025
@galaxis Ah, great, thanks for checking! I seem to have overlooked that. I sent an email to Prof. Verbaeten, but I guess the chances that he still has a copy of the code are probably rather low...
Show threadGeert Uytterhoeven
@me_
Did you manage to get the code from Prof. Verbaeten or Prof. Berbers?
Despite having done my PhD at that department, and knowing the department did some XC/MC68000 work (which turned into controlling the traffic lights at the entrance of the tunnel from E40 going into Brussels, IIRC ;-) I didn't know it was Pierre and Yolande who did that work...
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Show threadMichael EngelJun 15, 2025
@geert Unfortunately no reply so far, but I only contacted Prof. Verbaeten. I'll also try to get in touch with Prof. Berbers... it would be great to see this code preserved if it still exists.