[TUHS] UNIX on Tandem

[Ron Natalie via TUHS]

Interesting.  Having been around a bunch of odd-ball paralel systems 
(built a Purdue Dual-VAX, ported UNIX to the Denelcor HEP and designed 
its I/O system, worked wth 3B20s, etc) I always looked at other 
architectures.   Tandem’s architecture was an interesting one, but I had 
not heard of a UNIX port to it.   Had it’s own, unlike anything else, OS 
called TOS or something.

Parallelism on the Tandem was really designed for reliability as opposed 
to outright multiplication of computer power (sort of like some of the 
Western stuff).   It’s kind of the predecessor to some of the large 
scale cloud stuff today.

I’d be interested in the paper if anybody can dig it up.

------ Original Message ------
>From "Tom Lyon via TUHS" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
To "TUHS main list" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Date 1/9/2026 1:59:19 AM
Subject [TUHS] UNIX on Tandem

>Ran across this citation today.  Anyone ever seen this paper?  Known of the
>system?   I'm pretty sure they're talking about Tandem(TM), not just
>generic tandem.
>
>A Distributed UNIX System-The Tandem Experiment. A. M. Usas, Proc Natl
>Electron Conf, 34 (October 1980), pp 16-8.