From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67AC82905E for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2024 01:28:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0658B434A8; Mon, 8 Jul 2024 09:28:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: from anduin.eldar.org (anduin.eldar.org [IPv6:2001:470:c620:0:280:c8ff:fef8:70bc]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DBA1F43332 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2024 09:28:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from anduin.eldar.org (IDENT:brad@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anduin.eldar.org (8.16.1/8.13.8) with ESMTPS id 467NS4H7015828 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 7 Jul 2024 19:28:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from brad@localhost) by anduin.eldar.org (8.16.1/8.13.8/Submit) id 467NS4uV001395; Sun, 7 Jul 2024 19:28:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Brad Spencer To: Dave Horsfall In-Reply-To: (message from Dave Horsfall on Mon, 8 Jul 2024 08:00:46 +1000 (EST)) Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:28:04 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.4 (anduin.eldar.org [0.0.0.0]); Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:28:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID-Hash: RT27DNALHUNNY3BMS4X5AB56PMXJX4T5 X-Message-ID-Hash: RT27DNALHUNNY3BMS4X5AB56PMXJX4T5 X-MailFrom: brad@anduin.eldar.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Dave Horsfall writes: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, Peter Yardley wrote: > >> The DG Nova had a pretty nice architecture. 2 accumulators, 2 index >> registers, program counter, status register. No stack register tho. >> There was a micro processor version by Fairchild. > > The story behind it is interesting too. The designer at DEC (Ed de > Castro) tried to promote it, Ken Olson didn't like it, so he left to form > Data General and created the DG Nova. > > OK, not a Unix box... > > -- Dave I believe AOS for the Nova... and AOS/VS for the Supernova, aka the MV series. I got very good at dealing with AOS/VS at a university I attended. The later MV/xxxxx Supernova boxes could run Unix, I believe... (at least I remember the university running Unix on a MV series after I left). -- Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org