From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:06:09 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Tektronix Unix Variants In-Reply-To: <1146283916.17552.52.camel@64bit.vonhagen.org> References: <1146283916.17552.52.camel@64bit.vonhagen.org> Message-ID: <57B5B54F-F4BE-40DB-8CF9-B3E18E5A469F@tfeb.org> On 29 Apr 2006, at 05:11, William von Hagen wrote: > Tektronix had a Unix variant called uTek that ran on a number of > workstations that they produced in the 1980s - perhaps that's what > you're thinking of? These started out with Nat Semi processors, but > later production systems were 68Ks IIRC. Most of them ran uTek,. but > some also ran a SmallTalk-based system and were sold as AI boxes. As > you'd expect from Tektronix products, the graphics were superb for > their > day. The uTek boxes ran the X Window system and had Tektronix' own > window manager. I don't *think* that was it - I remember seeing those boxes at some trade show later, but this was a different animal - it was really a piece of test equipment for embedded processors (actually it might have been a socket-level simulator, that you used to replace an 1802 or something so you could see what it was doing) I think. It almost certainly had a serial console (which would have been a Tek graphics terminal of course _ I think it had a pair of them), and I am reasonably sure the thing that ran it all was a PDP-11 of some kind (poresumably a small one, because the whole system was not enormous). --tim