From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Collecting notes for future “historians” was: Earliest UNIX Workstations?
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:16:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiVARZufGGa5CgvxiFreLOZO7TY-vht8KDVqtdOUmA-PPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> * 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?
Certainly integration is critical. The display should be integral to the
terminal, not simply an available device.
Without that stipulation Ken's original single-user PDP-7 system would
count (unless, perhaps, the system had not yet been christened "Unix").
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2023-01-28 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-28 21:16 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2023-01-30 6:13 ` Phil Budne
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2023-01-26 0:31 [TUHS] " Joseph Holsten
2023-01-26 1:47 ` [TUHS] " Chris Hanson
2023-01-26 7:20 ` John Cowan
2023-01-26 18:04 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 21:29 ` [TUHS] Collecting notes for future “historians” was: " Joseph Holsten
2023-01-26 21:38 ` [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 22:41 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-27 0:34 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27 0:36 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-27 0:53 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27 1:28 ` David Arnold
2023-01-27 1:35 ` Warner Losh
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