From: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
To: Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Earliest UNIX Workstations?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:43:20 -0500 [thread overview]
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I was a grad student at CMU at the time. Raj Reddy told me back then that
it was 1 MIPS, 1 million pixels, 1 megabyte of RAM.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 21:04 Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:
> On 1/25/23 17:01, Larry Stewart wrote:
>
> Jim Morris left PARC and went off to CMU and began talking up the idea of
> the "3M" workstation. One MIPs, One Megabyte of RAM, and One Million
> Pixels.
>
> The way I heard it, a workstation needed to have Menus, a Mouse, and a 1
> MIPS processor. It also had a megabyte of RAM, at least a megabit LAN, a
> megapixel of display, and cost about a megapenny.
>
> Thanks,
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2023-01-26 0:31 [TUHS] " Joseph Holsten
2023-01-26 0:51 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 1:06 ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-26 1:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 1:01 ` Larry Stewart
2023-01-26 13:25 ` Marc Donner
2023-01-26 13:58 ` arnold
2023-01-31 2:03 ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-01-31 17:43 ` Marc Donner [this message]
2023-01-26 1:12 ` Tom Lyon
2023-01-26 1:47 ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-26 7:20 ` John Cowan
2023-01-26 7:33 ` Dave Horsfall
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2023-01-26 16:35 ` John Foust via TUHS
2023-01-26 17:58 ` Jon Forrest
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
2023-01-26 9:52 ` [TUHS] " emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26 9:58 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-26 10:09 ` Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS
2023-01-26 15:14 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-26 13:15 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-26 15:58 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-26 16:04 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2023-01-26 16:37 ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26 16:51 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 16:29 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-26 22:17 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-26 22:45 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-27 0:19 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-27 17:16 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-27 17:36 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-27 17:37 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-27 17:45 ` Rich Salz
2023-01-27 17:54 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-28 9:14 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-28 11:05 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-28 15:38 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-28 18:50 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-29 6:48 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-29 20:39 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-27 17:43 ` josh
2023-01-26 16:51 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-26 18:15 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 19:39 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-27 10:59 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 18:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 20:44 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-29 23:20 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-01-30 0:25 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-30 5:23 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-30 8:45 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-30 9:22 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-31 11:35 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-31 23:29 ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-30 13:00 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-02-06 7:01 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-06 8:39 ` Jonathan Gray
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