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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Henry Mensch <henry@henare.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>, Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>,
	tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: project athena (was Re: Setting up an X Development Environment for Mac OS)
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:53:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230211005322.GF28037@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1863dd20b08.2952.27ce34798ec5af9926fa49424fa0531c@henare.com>

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 07:13:41PM -0500, Henry Mensch wrote:
> that would have happened before I arrived in April of 1986. my first job at Athena was to. get folks off those XTs and (mostly) ATs.
> 
> This was wildly unsuccessful and unpopular because the replacement hardware wouldn't be similarly capable... and also because, even then, there were more things that could be plugged into XTs and ATs. The old platform was perceived as more versatile.
> 
> - Henry

So the "old platform" was the National 32016 addon cards that somehow 
ran a Unix?

I'd love to learn more about that, I really liked the 320xx architecture,
seemed like a winner but my memory is they were buggy.  Still would like
to get some idea of what it was like to run on an XT/AT with that card
plugged in.  Did you boot DOS and that somehow booted Unix or what?

--lm

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-11  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-25  1:46 [TUHS] Setting up an X Development Environment for Mac OS Will Senn
2023-01-25  7:45 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-25  8:00   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-25 16:41   ` Rich Salz
2023-01-25 19:53     ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-25 20:04       ` Dan Cross
2023-01-25 20:23         ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-25 20:27           ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-27  4:49         ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-27 18:05           ` Henry Mensch
2023-01-27 18:24             ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-01-26 13:17       ` Marc Donner
2023-02-08 22:12       ` [TUHS] project athena (was Re: Setting up an X Development Environment for Mac OS) Jonathan Gray
2023-02-09  2:51         ` [TUHS] " Theodore Ts'o
2023-02-11  0:13           ` Henry Mensch
2023-02-11  0:53             ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-02-11  3:51               ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-11 14:48                 ` Larry McVoy
2023-02-12  2:26                   ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-12 21:35                   ` Henry Mensch
2023-02-11  0:23         ` Henry Mensch

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