[TUHS] Collecting notes for future “historians” was: Earliest UNIX Workstations?

Douglas McIlroy douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Sun Jan 29 07:16:56 AEST 2023


> * What do I really mean by workstation? Ex.gr. If an installation had a
> PDP-11 with a single terminal and operator, is it not a workstation? Is it
> the integration of display into the system that differentiates?

Certainly integration is critical. The display should be integral to the
terminal, not simply an available device.

Without that stipulation Ken's original single-user PDP-7 system would
count (unless, perhaps, the system had not yet been christened "Unix").

Doug


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