[TUHS] Tektronix Unix Variants

Roger Ivie rivie at ridgenet.net
Sun Apr 30 05:46:31 AEST 2006


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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roger ivie
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