[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

[Brad Spencer]

Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> writes:

> On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, Peter Yardley wrote:
>
>> The DG Nova had a pretty nice architecture. 2 accumulators, 2 index 
>> registers, program counter, status register. No stack register tho. 
>> There was a micro processor version by Fairchild.
>
> The story behind it is interesting too.  The designer at DEC (Ed de 
> Castro) tried to promote it, Ken Olson didn't like it, so he left to form 
> Data General and created the DG Nova.
>
> OK, not a Unix box...
>
> -- Dave




I believe AOS for the Nova... and AOS/VS for the Supernova, aka the MV
series.  I got very good at dealing with AOS/VS at a university I
attended.  The later MV/xxxxx Supernova boxes could run Unix, I
believe... (at least I remember the university running Unix on a MV
series after I left).



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