[COFF] [TUHS] Will pdp 11/04 run unix?

[Bruce Baumgart]

Lars et al
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Lynn Quam is credited with building the XGP hardware interface to the SAIL PDP-6.


A few lines from
Version #1 of Quam’s file RESUME[DOC,PDQ] say

< quote >

Nov. 1972 to
Feb. 1973\jFull-time research associate in computer science.
Received a grant from the NASA Viking Mission thru 
Cornell University for the analysis of candidate landing
sites for the Viking mission.\.

\jDesign and debugging of an interface between a PDP-10 (PDP-6)
and and a Xerox Graphics Printer (XGP).\.

< Unquote />

Prior to the Stanford interface,
Quam built a Nova to XGP interface at Xerox Parc
As a part time employee while also working at SAIL.
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Bruce



p.s. Lynn Quam’s log in code is PDQ


> On 31 Jul 2020, at 12:38 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> 
> Clem Cole wrote:
>> Anyway, I'm pretty sure the [XGP] copies at Stanford (Jan '73), and
>> MIT (was the 3rd in the series and a little later) also used 11/20s or
>> maybe 11/15's which was the OEM version of the 20 as it was March '72
>> when the CMU XGP was first stood up.
> 
> Thank you.  That's one more "vote" in favour of 11/20.  In which case
> the TV-11 ought to be an 11/10 which was our original guess.  I don't
> think it matters to the software; it should run just as well on either
> model.
> 
> I have seen MIT files which describe the Stanford hardware, so it seems
> their inspiration came from there.  The earliest timestamp is from
> February 1973.
> 
> I got the impression the Stanford XGP had a PDP-6/10 IO bus interface
> rather than going through a PDP-11.  I'm CC'ing Bruce Baumgart.

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