[TUHS] non-UNIX timesharing at Bell Labs ca 1972?

Mike Knell m at blat.at
Fri Mar 12 03:00:20 AEST 2021



> On 11.03.2021, at 16:26, Dan Halbert <halbert at halwitz.org> wrote:
> 
> In 1972, while in high school, I went to an Intel seminar on the 8008. There I met a Bell Labs scientist who gave me a sample 8008 and invited me for a visit at some NJ Bell Labs facility. That group had a timesharing system of some kind, but it was not Unix. I was also given a Bell Labs speech synthesis kit after meeting one of the speech scientists who happened to be in on the same Saturday. I have searched my attic but can't find further details. Would any of you alumni recall what this other timesharing system might have been?

Not an alumnus of anything (alas, I am far too young and not clever enough), but maybe this was GECOS? (Origin of the name of the pw_gecos field in UNIX..)

Mike
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