26 Jan
2023
26 Jan
'23
9:14 p.m.
Check out: Magnolia - The Tektronix Unix Personal Computer September 1980
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This redates - Sun or Apollo, but not the Perq - a.k.a. the 'Pascalto'
Magonila was done in Tek Labs and it eventually birthed Tek
Workstation Division which was a complete failure, although did Tek
eventually commercialized the Magnolia as the Tek 4404 -- a Smalltalk
system (which you can so a web search). One of the Busines Schools (HBS I
think) wrote a study about it called 'Why Skunks Don't Work."
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 7:32 PM Joseph Holsten <joseph(a)josephholsten.com>
wrote:
It seems like there are bountiful articles able the
decline and fall of
the UNIX workstation, but I’ve had a hard time finding narrative about
workstations prior to the Stanford SUN workstation.
* was the SUN-1 the first commercially successful product? What are the
“it depends” edge cases?
* were there common recipes for proto-workstations within academic or
industrial research? What did those look like, who was involved?
* 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?
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Joseph Holsten
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