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From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] Will pdp 11/04 run unix?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:40:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2Np_=iusfrT4-Vvj7iUz-HYbKc+o6D=cYXp+4KFSR7Bgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wbljvjwzb.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

Very possible, I never saw the insides of theirs.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 3:38 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> Clem Cole wrote:
> > Anyway, I'm pretty sure the [XGP] copies at Stanford (Jan '73), and
> > MIT (was the 3rd in the series and a little later) also used 11/20s or
> > maybe 11/15's which was the OEM version of the 20 as it was March '72
> > when the CMU XGP was first stood up.
>
> Thank you.  That's one more "vote" in favour of 11/20.  In which case
> the TV-11 ought to be an 11/10 which was our original guess.  I don't
> think it matters to the software; it should run just as well on either
> model.
>
> I have seen MIT files which describe the Stanford hardware, so it seems
> their inspiration came from there.  The earliest timestamp is from
> February 1973.
>
> I got the impression the Stanford XGP had a PDP-6/10 IO bus interface
> rather than going through a PDP-11.  I'm CC'ing Bruce Baumgart.
>
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-31 13:56 jnc
2020-07-31 15:32 ` lars
2020-07-31 18:53 ` clemc
2020-07-31 19:38   ` lars
2020-07-31 19:40     ` clemc [this message]
2020-07-31 20:00     ` bgbaumgart
2020-07-31 20:05       ` clemc
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2020-07-31 21:26 jnc
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2020-07-31  7:57   ` lars

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