[TUHS] Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?

[Aron Insinga]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Firefly
=>
https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/bitsavers_dectechrep_1102275/SRC-RR-23.pdf

(One of the papers Wikipedia references talks about M68010 CPUs, maybe 
early cache work was done with them.)

- Aron


On 6/9/25 19:37, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>
> I’ve not heard of anyone having a complete Firefly.  Around 70 were 
> build I think.
>
> The Firefox was build as a product in the late ’80s by Workstation 
> Systems Engineering, which was down the street from us at the Systems 
> Research Center in Palo Alto.  It was maybe inspired by Firefly but 
> had an entirely different design.
>
> I see this topic came up once before here, in 2019: 
> https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-August/018389.html
>
>
>
>> On Jun 9, 2025, at 15:16, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 14:59, Lawrence Stewart <stewart at serissa.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     My rare items are only Unix-adjacent.  I have a Digital “Beta”
>>     prototype, the first Alpha machine in a PC form factor. It runs
>>     OSF-1, or would if I can find the SIMMs I borrowed from it :).  I
>>     have some boards for a Digital Firefly, a research vax
>>     multiprocessor that ran a Modula-2 based OS that would run Ultrix
>>     binaries.
>>
>>
>> That's incredibly cool.  Do you know if any of the Firefly machines 
>> survived?  I saw a VAXstation 3540 for sale at some point recently 
>> but it was well out of my price range; I hope it found a good home.
>>
>> -Henry
>
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