29 Apr
2006
29 Apr
'06
4:11 a.m.
Tektronix had a Unix variant called uTek that ran on a number of
workstations that they produced in the 1980s - perhaps that's what
you're thinking of? These started out with Nat Semi processors, but
later production systems were 68Ks IIRC. Most of them ran uTek,. but
some also ran a SmallTalk-based system and were sold as AI boxes. As
you'd expect from Tektronix products, the graphics were superb for their
day. The uTek boxes ran the X Window system and had Tektronix' own
window manager.
Bill
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:23:19 +0100
From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb(a)tfeb.org>
Subject: [TUHS] On the subject of old Unix variants: Tenix?
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Does anyone know anything about this? What I *think* it was was
something that ran on a logic analyser (?) made by Tektronix, which
had some kind of PDP-11 inside them. I suspect it was actually 7th
edition or something similar in rather light disguise. I came across
one of these in the early 80s but never used it, hence the vagueness
of my memory.
29 Apr
29 Apr
1:06 p.m.
On 29 Apr 2006, at 05:11, William von Hagen wrote:
Tektronix had a Unix variant called uTek that ran on a
number of
workstations that they produced in the 1980s - perhaps that's what
you're thinking of? These started out with Nat Semi processors, but
later production systems were 68Ks IIRC. Most of them ran uTek,. but
some also ran a SmallTalk-based system and were sold as AI boxes. As
you'd expect from Tektronix products, the graphics were superb for
their
day. The uTek boxes ran the X Window system and had Tektronix' own
window manager.
I don't *think* that was it - I remember seeing those boxes at some
trade show later, but this was a different animal - it was really a
piece of test equipment for embedded processors (actually it might
have been a socket-level simulator, that you used to replace an 1802
or something so you could see what it was doing) I think. It almost
certainly had a serial console (which would have been a Tek graphics
terminal of course _ I think it had a pair of them), and I am
reasonably sure the thing that ran it all was a PDP-11 of some kind
(poresumably a small one, because the whole system was not enormous).
--tim
7:46 p.m.
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
I don't *think* that was it - I remember seeing
those boxes at some
trade show later, but this was a different animal - it was really a
piece of test equipment for embedded processors (actually it might
have been a socket-level simulator, that you used to replace an 1802
or something so you could see what it was doing) I think. It almost
certainly had a serial console (which would have been a Tek graphics
terminal of course _ I think it had a pair of them), and I am
reasonably sure the thing that ran it all was a PDP-11 of some kind
(poresumably a small one, because the whole system was not enormous).
I can confirm your memory. I was involved in a demo of one round about
1983. It was an ICE, but I forget which processors it supported. TEK4105
terminal (first time I saw one of those). It did, indeed, run Unix on a
PDP-11, but I forget the details. Only saw it once, and I quit working
for that company within six months of the demo; don't know whether they
wound up buying any.
--
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