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From: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: First supercomputer UNIX: The Denelcor HEP (was Early multiprocessor Unix)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:53:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6B2EF7CF-5264-4B83-B69F-BC09256138EA@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <em64d7f56c-54af-4263-92ec-4795bbfb21cc@c62ead55.com>

Bitsavers has some files on the HEP, if anyone is interested.

The research papers are a collection of undated, probably published pieces.

<http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/denelcor/>

> On 30 Nov 2022, at 02:54, Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> 
> BRL had commissioned the Denver Electronics Corporation (i.e., Denelcor) to build a MIMD system called the HEP, ostensibly to do fluid dynamics problems.   It was looking like the manufacturer wasn’t going to have a useful OS for it so Mike Muss did his usual thing and suggested he could put UNIX on it (he had done this twice previously with orphaned machines:  some 11/34 graphics stations that were supposed to be connected to the CDC7600 and converting the University of Illinois Arpanet Terminal Server (ANTS) to a host that could support long leaders.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-29 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-28 13:24 [TUHS] Early multiprocessor Unix Paul Ruizendaal
2022-11-28 13:42 ` [TUHS] " Larry Stewart
2022-11-28 14:05 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 14:13   ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 14:19     ` Warner Losh
2023-08-06 14:19     ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 14:16   ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 14:50     ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 16:30   ` Paul Winalski
2022-11-28 16:49     ` Clem Cole
2023-08-06 14:12   ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 16:52 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-11-29  9:39 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-11-29 15:54   ` [TUHS] First supercomputer UNIX: The Denelcor HEP (was Early multiprocessor Unix) Ron Natalie
2022-11-29 17:00     ` [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2022-11-29 20:53     ` steve jenkin [this message]
2023-08-05 23:00 ` [TUHS] Re: Early multiprocessor Unix scj
2023-08-06  0:54   ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-06  6:52   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-08-06  9:28   ` Ronald Natalie
2023-08-06  9:57   ` Ralph Corderoy

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