Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:03:59 GMT
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From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb@aiai.ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: What's TENIX??
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* Warren Toomey wrote:
> In article by Harald Barth:
>> 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
 
> Hmm, I haven't heard of Tenix before. I might punt this onto the
> mailing list to see if anybody can identify it.

> Any ideas, people??
 
I remember this.  Somewhere I worked as a student there was a
tektronix box which supported some kind of microcontroller development
system and/or and in-circuit emulator (for things like 8048 / 8051,
though I think it had personality modules).  It was a box which was
known to be a PDP11, and had a couple of tek terminals on it, probably
another box with stuff to support the emulators/PROM blowers & stuff,
and it ran Tenix.  I had an account on it, but all I knew then was
that it was some kind of Unix.  V7 sounds right -- perhaps it was
Tek's OEMd version of this, with (I guess) support for whatever HW
they had + some kind of development environment / x-assemblers & so
on.  The box just might still exist somewhere -- I made an attempt to
get hold of it after I realised that PDP11s were cool, but it was hard
because it had been worth a lot of money once and the accountants went
all funny about it.

--tim