[TUHS] Re: Earliest UNIX Workstations?

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:20:52AM +0100, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote: Another window system was Whitechapel Computer Works' Oriel. "During 1985 major developments took place, mainly on the software front. A factor of 6 improvement in graphics performance was obtained, and the Oriel state-of-the-art window manager developed. The Newcastle Connection and SUN's NFS have also been announced as products, available on 42NIX, the Whitechapel release of Berkeley BSD 4.2." http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acd/sus/perq_papers/perq_external/p003.… http://www.cpu-ns32k.net/Whitechapel.html has a photo of the GUI running on a MG-1 with NS32016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMQ9EvZLSos "Booting 42nix 2.5 on a Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1" from Tom Stepleton who also maintained https://web.archive.org/web/20210625124716/http://mg-1.uk/ https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-02/1985_02_BYTE_10-02_Comput… has an article on Whitechapel Computer Works and the MG-1, before they changed from Genix to 42nix "The operating system is Genix, a Berkeley 4.1 UNIX customized by WCW to support the MG-1's graphics abilities" http://web.archive.org/web/20030205212745/http://www.galactic.co.uk/iainf/m… "The WCW MG-1 was launched in September 1984 .. The monitor was a large (17 inch) 1024x800 bit-mapped monochrome screen, and there was hardware support for up to 16 mask-shift raster operations at once, modelled after the 3RCC/ICL PERQ raster-ops. ... It ran a kernel based window system called ORIEL (and a SunTools like graphics library called ANGEL), which took full advantage of the raster-op hardware."