27 Jan
2023
27 Jan
'23
3:29 a.m.
I love how I can fire off a query and get so much info. But I wonder: does TUHS have any
way of consolidating these threads into easily digestible documents? What would be
preferred, a wiki? or a source control repo with “articles”?
I’m mostly wanting summarize this kind of thread and include links to mailing list
messages and other resources.
But also, I’m lazy and I am not committing to editing a journal.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023, at 10:04, Jon Steinhart wrote:
John Cowan writes:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 8:47 PM Chris Hanson
<cmhanson(a)eschatologist.net>
wrote:
WP says the Terak 8510/a was the first graphical workstation; it came out
in 1976-77 and ran the UCSD p-System. I had never heard of it before. The
first *personal* workstation (non-graphical) was probably the IBM 1620 (aka
the CADET system, "Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try") from 1959.
I think that WP is not correct here, the Tektronix 4051 beat it to market
by a year. * 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?
I think "a graphical system intended to be used by a professional to use
in their work" is a good starting point for a definition. I should check at
home tonight how "A History of Personal Workstations" defines it.