From: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
To: "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Earliest UNIX Workstations?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:35:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5CE95A98-E85B-4E33-9A35-A9511CF7FCD8@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y9dUaQf+btXgTttl@largo.jsg.id.au>
> On 30 Jan 2023, at 06:23, Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:20:52AM +0100, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote:
>>
>>
>> Both the UK conference and the NeWS book mention a Unix kernel-based windowing system done at MIT in 1981 or 1982, “NU" or “NUnix”, by Jack Test. That one had not been mentioned before here and may have been the first graphical windowing work on Unix, preceding the Blit. Who remembers this one?
>
> mentioned in ;login: Volume 7 Number 4, September 1982
> https://archive.org/details/login_september-1982/page/24/mode/2up
> Notes on the Boston USENIX and /usr/group Joint Meeting July 1982
>
> "NUnix Window System Description, Jack A. Test
> Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
> Room 414, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, Mass 02139
Appendix E in this report from the University of Illinois describes a port of NUnix to similar hardware. It also contains a walkthrough of a sample workstation session with 17 screen prints:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19840008755/downloads/19840008755.pdf
Very informative.
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2023-01-29 23:20 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-30 0:25 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-30 5:23 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-30 8:45 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-30 9:22 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-31 11:35 ` Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
2023-01-31 23:29 ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-30 13:00 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-02-06 7:01 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-06 8:39 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-06 10:03 ` [TUHS] window systems (was Re: Earliest UNIX Workstations?) Jonathan Gray
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2023-01-26 15:58 [TUHS] Earliest UNIX Workstations? Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-26 16:04 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2023-01-26 16:37 ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26 16:51 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 16:29 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-26 22:17 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-26 22:45 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-27 0:19 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-27 17:16 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-27 17:36 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-27 17:37 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-27 17:45 ` Rich Salz
2023-01-27 17:54 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-28 9:14 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-28 11:05 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-28 15:38 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-28 18:50 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-29 6:48 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-29 20:39 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-27 17:43 ` josh
2023-01-26 16:51 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-26 18:15 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 19:39 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-27 10:59 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 18:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 20:44 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-26 13:15 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-26 0:31 [TUHS] " Joseph Holsten
2023-01-26 0:51 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 1:06 ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-26 1:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 1:01 ` Larry Stewart
2023-01-26 13:25 ` Marc Donner
2023-01-26 13:58 ` arnold
2023-01-31 2:03 ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-01-31 17:43 ` Marc Donner
2023-01-26 1:12 ` Tom Lyon
2023-01-26 1:47 ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-26 7:20 ` John Cowan
2023-01-26 7:33 ` Dave Horsfall
[not found] ` <CAD2gp_QtUPmd78yAixvKK1wzPX67HKZXzU5cJnVUbcWtMounGQ@mail.g mail.com>
2023-01-26 16:35 ` John Foust via TUHS
2023-01-26 17:58 ` Jon Forrest
2023-01-26 18:04 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 9:52 ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26 9:58 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-26 10:09 ` Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS
2023-01-26 15:14 ` Clem Cole
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