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From: Dennis Boone <drb@msu.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] 516-TSS, was re: Joe Condon
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 20:22:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190421002212.2E1861AF502@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sat, 20 Apr 2019 15:57:27 -0700.) <201904202257.x3KMvRQ1011077@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

 > The page says that Joe "was exposed to UNIX on the Honeywell 516
 > machines in the early 1970s."  This seems wrong to me.  We did have a
 > 516, but it ran an experimental virtual memory system called 516-TSS.
 > I lived on this system and still have some of the octal instruction
 > opcodes burned into my brain-ROM.

As a Prime 50-Series buff, I'd be interested in knowing more about this
516-TSS.  Pointers appreciated, if there are any bits, documentation, or
war stories lurking about.

De

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-21  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-20 22:57 [TUHS] Joe Condon [ long, slightly off-topic post ] Jon Steinhart
2019-04-21  0:22 ` Dennis Boone [this message]
2019-04-21  1:00   ` [TUHS] 516-TSS, was re: Joe Condon Jon Steinhart
2019-04-21  3:07   ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-04-21  3:52     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-04-21  5:52 ` [TUHS] Joe Condon [ long, slightly off-topic post ] Rob Pike
2019-04-21 16:46   ` Jon Steinhart
2019-04-21 14:15 [TUHS] 516-TSS, was re: Joe Condon Noel Chiappa

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