[COFF] [TUHS] Will pdp 11/04 run unix?

[clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole)]

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OK, that makes sense.  As I said, I thought MAXC was a Nova.  So,
Stanford used a direct interface to the 10 and the CMU, DEC and MIT ones
used an 11/20
I don't know how many others were stood up or how.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:00 PM Bruce Baumgart <bgbaumgart at mac.com> wrote:

> Lars et al
> -
> Lynn Quam is credited with building the XGP hardware interface to the SAIL
> PDP-6.
>
>
> A few lines from
> Version #1 of Quam’s file RESUME[DOC,PDQ] say
>
> < quote >
>
> Nov. 1972 to
> Feb. 1973\jFull-time research associate in computer science.
> Received a grant from the NASA Viking Mission thru
> Cornell University for the analysis of candidate landing
> sites for the Viking mission.\.
>
> \jDesign and debugging of an interface between a PDP-10 (PDP-6)
> and and a Xerox Graphics Printer (XGP).\.
>
> < Unquote />
>
> Prior to the Stanford interface,
> Quam built a Nova to XGP interface at Xerox Parc
> As a part time employee while also working at SAIL.
> -
> Bruce
>
>
>
> p.s. Lynn Quam’s log in code is PDQ
>
>
> On 31 Jul 2020, at 12:38 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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