25 Jan
2023
25 Jan
'23
9:25 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 3:38 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
Do any of the really early versions of X (and W) still exist?
Not that I have found. I looked a couple a years ago. FWIW: I would be
surprised if any of it was in CLU, because the first version of X was a
redo from synchronous W protocol to the async one Bob did. If I remember
it correctly ... W as for the V Kernel on the Stanford (68K based) Sun
Terminal, that Paul Asente and Brian Reid did at Stanford (in C). The
Paul and Chris Kent at DEC (either WRL or SRC I foirget which) took it and
made it work on a VS100 and microvax. That version when to MIT via the
Athena connection and Bob rewrote the back-end creating the X from W.
Shortly after that Gettys brought the Microvax X version out to me in
Westford where, he, Jack Burness and I got it running on a 68K based
Masscomp over a weekend fairly soon after Jack his first version of his new
BITBLT primitive working - which until then we lacked (it was pretty cool
how quick it came up).
Clem
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