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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23680 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2022 20:54:58 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 29 Nov 2022 20:54:58 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301C241C37; Wed, 30 Nov 2022 06:54:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lists.tip.net.au (lists.tip.net.au [203.10.76.3]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C08141C1F for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2022 06:54:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (219-90-191-162.ip.adam.com.au [219.90.191.162]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.tip.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4NMF1b4nzRz9QNt; Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:53:54 +1100 (AEDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.21\)) From: steve jenkin In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:53:52 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <6B2EF7CF-5264-4B83-B69F-BC09256138EA@canb.auug.org.au> References: <7C8CADAB-65AA-4841-AFA1-569A9651E56D@planet.nl> To: Ron Natalie X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.21) Message-ID-Hash: GPFP5XNL3ZIA7BS335FQGXEUQ3LMMYM2 X-Message-ID-Hash: GPFP5XNL3ZIA7BS335FQGXEUQ3LMMYM2 X-MailFrom: sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au 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 CC: TUHS X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: First supercomputer UNIX: The Denelcor HEP (was Early multiprocessor Unix) List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Bitsavers has some files on the HEP, if anyone is interested. The research papers are a collection of undated, probably published = pieces. > On 30 Nov 2022, at 02:54, Ron Natalie wrote: >=20 > 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=E2=80=99t = 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. -- Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design=20 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915) PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin