31 Jan
2023
31 Jan
'23
5:35 p.m.
On 30 Jan 2023, at 06:23, Jonathan Gray
<jsg(a)jsg.id.au> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:20:52AM +0100, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote:
Appendix E in this report from the University of Illinois describes a port of NUnix to
similar hardware. It also contains a walkthrough of a sample workstation session with 17
screen prints:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19840008755/downloads/19840008755.pdf
Very informative.
Both the UK conference and the NeWS book mention a Unix kernel-based windowing system
done at MIT in 1981 or 1982, “NU" or “NUnix”, by Jack Test. That one had not been
mentioned before here and may have been the first graphical windowing work on Unix,
preceding the Blit. Who remembers this one?
mentioned in ;login: Volume 7 Number 4, September 1982
https://archive.org/details/login_september-1982/page/24/mode/2up
Notes on the Boston USENIX and /usr/group Joint Meeting July 1982
"NUnix Window System Description, Jack A. Test
Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Room 414, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, Mass 02139