From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The MGR window system and the Macintosh
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 09:33:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PC53BYiUPiQZzTHakHgaWRoSO5pY8uofqw3yRifSUb4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e226172-b395-f5c1-df2c-b383024a08df@bitsavers.org>
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This thread needs to move to COFF to continue - although my own story is
1/2 about BSD and the VAX.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 10:15 PM Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> wrote:
> On 8/4/22 5:37 PM, Andrew Newman wrote:
>
> > There's a bunch of AED documentation online, including this...
> >
> > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/aed/brochures/AED_767_Brochure_Jun82.pdf <
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/aed/brochures/AED_767_Brochure_Jun82.pdf>
>
> I worked at AED before going to Apple, to stay sort of window related, the
> last project I worked on at AED was
> a VME and Qbus board set that was a complete color X terminal.
>
I had to chuckle when I read that. In the fall of '82 (I think), we got a
Smalltalk VM from PARC at UCB. Dave Unger, Ken Keller, and I - plus some
other folks in Patterson's systems seminar who's names I have since
forgotten, wrote a VM in C for the VAX/BSD. We used an AED512 and Keller's
graphics library from his thesis running over a 19.2 serial link as the
output. About a month after we had it running, a couple of us got to visit
PARC, and Peter Deutch showed us Smalltalk running on a Dorado. He ran his
hand with the mouse across the screen opening and closing a bunch of
windows randomly. We started laughing and Peter asked us what was so
funny. We told him what he did would have taken at least 5 minutes to
redisplay on BSD/VAX version.
Clem
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-04 19:45 [TUHS] " John Floren
2022-08-04 20:18 ` [TUHS] " Al Kossow
2022-08-04 20:29 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-04 23:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:16 ` Richard Salz
2022-08-04 23:21 ` Bakul Shah
2022-08-04 23:42 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-04 23:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:58 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-05 4:26 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:56 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-16 22:51 ` Michael Parson
2022-09-16 23:00 ` Henry Bent
2022-08-04 21:14 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-04 22:07 ` Bakul Shah
2022-08-04 23:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-05 0:37 ` Andrew Newman
2022-08-05 2:14 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-05 13:33 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2022-08-09 1:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-08-09 1:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-08-05 8:38 ` arnold
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