Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer

@article{Jalics1983TransportingAP,
  title={Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer},
  author={Paul J. Jalics and Thomas S. Heines},
  journal={Commun. ACM},
  year={1983},
  volume={26},
  pages={1066-1072},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:15558835}
}
The “portable” UNIX operating system was transported to an IBM Series/1 minicomputer with emphasis on adapting to the target machine architecture.
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