From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mike.ab3ap@gmail.com (Mike Markowski) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:02:55 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Masscomp - Real Time Unix (RTU) an early UNIX based system, the first commercial multiprocessor and was realtime In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > >> I was sys admin for a Masscomp with a 40MB disk > > Right an early MC-500/DP system - although I think the minimum was a 20M > [ST-506 based] disk. > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Mike Markowski > wrote: > >> I remember Masscomp ... it allowed data acquisition to not be swapped >>> out. >>> >> Actually, not quite right in how it worked, but in practice you got the > desired behavior. More in a minute. > [...lots of good stuff...] > > Clem > Thanks very much, Clem! I had no idea what was under the hood of the Masscomps I was using then, fresh out of grad school. I was on a team designing a tracking radar system and using the Masscomp as a tool to control gear and acquire the return signals. All my attention was on that and not so much the computer itself. Super interesting to learn about it. Mike Markowski -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: