At 01:20 AM 1/26/2023, John Cowan 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.
I have a dozen or so Teraks (a PDP-11/03 based system) as well as
many floppies and other inherited items and notebooks from one
of the Terak founders. This may seem like a lot but there's another
guy who might still have a larger collection.
Mini-Unix is described here:
http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/mini-unix.html
Sixth edition, no MMU. The Bell memo there is dated January 1977.
There was a Mini-Unix for the Terak described here in May 1979 but
I don't think I have a copy. See page 14...
https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/159028/UCC_Special%20_Is…
Terak floppies are described here:
http://www.60bits.net/msu/mycomp/terak/termedia.htm
A memo there says they got their copy in April 1980.
There's no indication that this Mini-Unix can *use* the Terak's mono
bitmapped display, short of writing your own routines. Pinning "first"
on computers is always a tricky process.
- John