* [TUHS] Tektronix Unix Variants
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@ 2006-04-29 4:11 ` William von Hagen
2006-04-29 13:06 ` Tim Bradshaw
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From: William von Hagen @ 2006-04-29 4:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Tektronix had a Unix variant called uTek that ran on a number of
workstations that they produced in the 1980s - perhaps that's what
you're thinking of? These started out with Nat Semi processors, but
later production systems were 68Ks IIRC. Most of them ran uTek,. but
some also ran a SmallTalk-based system and were sold as AI boxes. As
you'd expect from Tektronix products, the graphics were superb for their
day. The uTek boxes ran the X Window system and had Tektronix' own
window manager.
Bill
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> Subject: [TUHS] On the subject of old Unix variants: Tenix?
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> Does anyone know anything about this? What I *think* it was was
> something that ran on a logic analyser (?) made by Tektronix, which
> had some kind of PDP-11 inside them. I suspect it was actually 7th
> edition or something similar in rather light disguise. I came across
> one of these in the early 80s but never used it, hence the vagueness
> of my memory.
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* [TUHS] Tektronix Unix Variants
2006-04-29 4:11 ` [TUHS] Tektronix Unix Variants William von Hagen
@ 2006-04-29 13:06 ` Tim Bradshaw
2006-04-29 19:46 ` Roger Ivie
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From: Tim Bradshaw @ 2006-04-29 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 29 Apr 2006, at 05:11, William von Hagen wrote:
> Tektronix had a Unix variant called uTek that ran on a number of
> workstations that they produced in the 1980s - perhaps that's what
> you're thinking of? These started out with Nat Semi processors, but
> later production systems were 68Ks IIRC. Most of them ran uTek,. but
> some also ran a SmallTalk-based system and were sold as AI boxes. As
> you'd expect from Tektronix products, the graphics were superb for
> their
> day. The uTek boxes ran the X Window system and had Tektronix' own
> window manager.
I don't *think* that was it - I remember seeing those boxes at some
trade show later, but this was a different animal - it was really a
piece of test equipment for embedded processors (actually it might
have been a socket-level simulator, that you used to replace an 1802
or something so you could see what it was doing) I think. It almost
certainly had a serial console (which would have been a Tek graphics
terminal of course _ I think it had a pair of them), and I am
reasonably sure the thing that ran it all was a PDP-11 of some kind
(poresumably a small one, because the whole system was not enormous).
--tim
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* [TUHS] Tektronix Unix Variants
2006-04-29 13:06 ` Tim Bradshaw
@ 2006-04-29 19:46 ` Roger Ivie
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From: Roger Ivie @ 2006-04-29 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> I don't *think* that was it - I remember seeing those boxes at some
> trade show later, but this was a different animal - it was really a
> piece of test equipment for embedded processors (actually it might
> have been a socket-level simulator, that you used to replace an 1802
> or something so you could see what it was doing) I think. It almost
> certainly had a serial console (which would have been a Tek graphics
> terminal of course _ I think it had a pair of them), and I am
> reasonably sure the thing that ran it all was a PDP-11 of some kind
> (poresumably a small one, because the whole system was not enormous).
I can confirm your memory. I was involved in a demo of one round about
1983. It was an ICE, but I forget which processors it supported. TEK4105
terminal (first time I saw one of those). It did, indeed, run Unix on a
PDP-11, but I forget the details. Only saw it once, and I quit working
for that company within six months of the demo; don't know whether they
wound up buying any.
--
roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net
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* [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 30, Issue 11
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@ 2006-04-30 3:01 ` Al Kossow
2006-05-01 22:08 ` [TUHS] Tektronix Unix Variants Jochen Kunz
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From: Al Kossow @ 2006-04-30 3:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Apr 29, 2006, at 7:00 PM, tuhs-request at minnie.tuhs.org wrote:
>
> I don't *think* that was it - I remember seeing those boxes at some
> trade show later, but this was a different animal - it was really a
> piece of test equipment for embedded processors (actually it might
> have been a socket-level simulator, that you used to replace an 1802
> or something so you could see what it was doing) I think.
It was the Tek 8560 multi-user development system.
Different models had either an 11/23 or 11/73 processor
with their own peripheral interfaces.
Manuals on bitsavers.com under tektronix/85xx
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