From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 3979 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2023 11:36:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 31 Jan 2023 11:36:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4892C424BE; Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:36:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from ewsoutbound.kpnmail.nl (ewsoutbound.kpnmail.nl [195.121.94.185]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB91C424AC for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:35:55 +1000 (AEST) X-KPN-MessageId: 598a20ea-a15b-11ed-884e-005056999439 Received: from smtp.kpnmail.nl (unknown [10.31.155.6]) by ewsoutbound.so.kpn.org (Halon) with ESMTPS id 598a20ea-a15b-11ed-884e-005056999439; Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:35:23 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=planet.nl; s=planet01; h=message-id:to:date:subject:mime-version:content-type:from; bh=RAKOXdjVq1rcoGhL29HMmrnBOGZPeSH9/N5SFs5GAaw=; b=ub5cEuOkjGEEoIiWGQ7io4TXLVi6mFui2UVGOCJodl2ea4VP9hLH7EiE05ynUr3rjbmi2AOV05q9G nkElAwuvbIAog+oSdFLWzV6WYUy9O1X4kxkYxNK3yZCg4gDEIi7xK4ojzbwIkSagRHujKYufy+vQGo azYvyo4k7YNkU4BE= X-KPN-MID: 33|ba7ADulN6JT8K8Ot6UfBFp2UIRswA/ckZiP7Z/jS3Cq1qwvPuXiqXg5Pb33Fpl/ +FOg1bx8P6/JZ9pQQ2e17Hx6UoOR64UVP/TD1Q34hW7g= X-KPN-VerifiedSender: Yes X-CMASSUN: 33|fTaaS4sLcnLPjsQVBrOetUf12aTWLj2LGeWvSOrP9pQTyVIXsPYIn0qPH6b4SrR dK4PYKHgrj4ZIABM6XuX5BA== X-Originating-IP: 81.173.78.10 Received: from smtpclient.apple (a81-173-78-10.dsl.pocosnet.nl [81.173.78.10]) by smtp.kpnmail.nl (Halon) with ESMTPSA id 67161b69-a15b-11ed-87f0-00505699772e; Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:35:46 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Ruizendaal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 14.0 \(3654.120.0.1.13\)) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:35:45 +0100 References: To: "tuhs@tuhs.org" In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <5CE95A98-E85B-4E33-9A35-A9511CF7FCD8@planet.nl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3654.120.0.1.13) Message-ID-Hash: I2RLYIIUNGDX4Q7FLLXAFDEMVU2SSUYG X-Message-ID-Hash: I2RLYIIUNGDX4Q7FLLXAFDEMVU2SSUYG X-MailFrom: pnr@planet.nl X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Earliest UNIX Workstations? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: > On 30 Jan 2023, at 06:23, Jonathan Gray wrote: >=20 > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:20:52AM +0100, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS = wrote: >>=20 >>=20 >> Both the UK conference and the NeWS book mention a Unix kernel-based = windowing system done at MIT in 1981 or 1982, =E2=80=9CNU" or = =E2=80=9CNUnix=E2=80=9D, 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? >=20 > 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 >=20 > "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.