From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Date: Sat,  8 Apr 2017 00:31:08 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [TUHS] Non-US Unix Activities
In-Reply-To: Tim Bradshaw's message of Fri, 7 Apr 2017 13:09:04 +0100
Message-ID: <20170407233108.0930B114FBE6@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk>


> 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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