29 Apr
2006
29 Apr
'06
7:06 p.m.
On 29 Apr 2006, at 05:11, William von Hagen wrote:
Tektronix had a Unix variant called uTek that ran on a
number of
workstations that they produced in the 1980s - perhaps that's what
you're thinking of? These started out with Nat Semi processors, but
later production systems were 68Ks IIRC. Most of them ran uTek,. but
some also ran a SmallTalk-based system and were sold as AI boxes. As
you'd expect from Tektronix products, the graphics were superb for
their
day. The uTek boxes ran the X Window system and had Tektronix' own
window manager.
I don't *think* that was it - I remember seeing those boxes at some
trade show later, but this was a different animal - it was really a
piece of test equipment for embedded processors (actually it might
have been a socket-level simulator, that you used to replace an 1802
or something so you could see what it was doing) I think. It almost
certainly had a serial console (which would have been a Tek graphics
terminal of course _ I think it had a pair of them), and I am
reasonably sure the thing that ran it all was a PDP-11 of some kind
(poresumably a small one, because the whole system was not enormous).
--tim