30 Nov
2022
30 Nov
'22
2:53 a.m.
Bitsavers has some files on the HEP, if anyone is interested.
The research papers are a collection of undated, probably published pieces.
<http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/denelcor/>
On 30 Nov 2022, at 02:54, Ron Natalie
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
BRL had commissioned the Denver Electronics Corporation (i.e., Denelcor) to build a MIMD
system called the HEP, ostensibly to do fluid dynamics problems. It was looking like the
manufacturer wasn’t going to have a useful OS for it so Mike Muss did his usual thing and
suggested he could put UNIX on it (he had done this twice previously with orphaned
machines: some 11/34 graphics stations that were supposed to be connected to the CDC7600
and converting the University of Illinois Arpanet Terminal Server (ANTS) to a host that
could support long leaders.
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