Check out: Magnolia - The Tektronix Unix Personal Computer September 1980 This redates - Sun or Apollo, but not the Perq - a.k.a. the 'Pascalto' Magonila was done in Tek Labs and it eventually birthed Tek Workstation Division which was a complete failure, although did Tek eventually commercialized the Magnolia as the Tek 4404 -- a Smalltalk system (which you can so a web search). One of the Busines Schools (HBS I think) wrote a study about it called 'Why Skunks Don't Work." ᐧ On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 7:32 PM Joseph Holsten wrote: > It seems like there are bountiful articles able the decline and fall of > the UNIX workstation, but I’ve had a hard time finding narrative about > workstations prior to the Stanford SUN workstation. > > * was the SUN-1 the first commercially successful product? What are the > “it depends” edge cases? > * were there common recipes for proto-workstations within academic or > industrial research? What did those look like, who was involved? > * What do I really mean by workstation? Ex.gr. If an installation had a > PDP-11 with a single terminal and operator, is it not a workstation? Is it > the integration of display into the system that differentiates? > > -- > Joseph Holsten > http://josephholsten.com > mailto:joseph@josephholsten.com > tel:+1-360-927-7234 <(360)%20927-7234> >