From: richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: [TUHS] Non-US Unix Activities
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 00:31:08 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170407233108.0930B114FBE6@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Tim Bradshaw's message of Fri, 7 Apr 2017 13:09:04 +0100
> While going through papers recently we found what was I am reasonably
> sure the quote for the first Sun sold in Scotland which might be of some
> interest (inevitably I now don't know where it is, although we did not
> throw it away). We're not sure whether it is for that machine, but we
> are sure that my wife (who isn't on the list) ran it (a 2/120 we think).
> It started out with SunOS 1 (or perhaps before).
In 1984 the Programming Systems Groups in Edinburgh's AI department
was contracted by SERC to evaluate workstations for its "Common Base"
program. We had a Sun 2/120, a Whitechapel MG-1, an Apollo Domain
system, and I think we already had at least one PNX Perq.
We recommended Suns. I can't find the report we wrote anywhere
online, but I'm fairly sure I've seen it in the last couple of years.
Presumably we gave the evaluation 2/120 back to Sun and bought the one
mentioned by Tim (it was called "islay" unless I have become confused)
a bit later, in 1985.
-- Richard
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-07 23:31 Richard Tobin [this message]
2017-04-08 10:57 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-04-08 11:13 ` Jason Stevens
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2017-04-08 14:31 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-08 9:46 Berny Goodheart
2017-04-08 10:28 ` Jason Stevens
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2017-04-07 14:29 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2017-04-05 22:22 [TUHS] A decision Warren Toomey
2017-04-06 20:08 ` Josh Good
2017-04-06 23:09 ` [TUHS] Non-US Unix Activities Warren Toomey
2017-04-07 5:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-07 19:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-07 8:44 ` Alec Muffett
2017-04-07 9:32 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-04-07 10:24 ` Alec Muffett
2017-04-07 11:35 ` jsteve
2017-04-07 16:09 ` Alec Muffett
2017-04-09 6:34 ` Random832
2017-04-09 11:03 ` Alec Muffett
2017-04-09 16:57 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-09 19:20 ` Random832
2017-04-10 13:06 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-04-09 22:45 ` Steve Johnson
2017-04-10 5:40 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-04-10 13:10 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-04-07 17:57 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-04-07 18:24 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-07 20:23 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-04-07 20:53 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-07 21:51 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-04-07 22:08 ` Steve Johnson
2017-04-07 22:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-07 22:01 ` Alec Muffett
2017-04-08 17:28 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-04-07 10:40 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 12:09 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-04-07 12:25 ` jsteve
2017-04-07 13:55 ` tfb
2017-04-07 14:36 ` George Ross
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