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To: shsrms@erols.com
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Subject: What's TNIX (Was: What's TENIX??)
From: Harald Barth <haba@pdc.kth.se>
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:06:44 +0100
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Hi,

I wrote to Warren:
> > > One PDP-11 I have (and don't quite understand the hardware of) calls itself
> > > Tektronix 8562. In that box (43x60x30cm) you find
> > >    LSI-11/73  (only part made by DIGITAL)
> > >    Controller with
> > >          8'' floppy
> > >          40Mb MFM disk with TENIX (binary of some kind of V7 Unix)
> > >    Controller with
> > >          10 ttys

Warren wrote:
> > Hmm, I haven't heard of Tenix before. I might punt this onto the
> > mailing list to see if anybody can identify it.

shsrms@erols.com wrote:
> Tenex was a PDP10 (aka DECSystem 10/20) operating system.
> Some 10s had 11s as consoles.

The Tektronix manuals say "Tektronix Unix" and "TNIX". Looks like I've
to boot the box and have a closer look at the actual software. I'm
quite sure that it is some kind of v7. Unfortunately, it's just
binaries. I don't think this should be confused with Tenex and/or
PDP10s which had PDP11s and PDP8s as I/O processors in different
places.

Harald.