9 Mar
2006
9 Mar
'06
7:10 a.m.
A good place to start learning about Tenex is Dan Murphy's page at
http://www.opost.com/dlm/tenex/
It was a precursor to TOPS-10 (at least I think it
was).
Ancestor of TOPS-20. Dan's page has a great history and motivations for
developing a new OS on the DECSystem-10 architecture.
Lee Courtney
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brad Parker
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:18 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: TENEX on emulator (simh?)
>
>
> "Wai-Sun Chia" wrote:
> >Hello,
> >I''ve heard a bit on TENEX, and I'd like to explore it
> further, and so
> >I was wondering as to whether TENEX is available on any emulators
> >(simh)?
> >
> >Does it run on any pdp11 class systems? Unibus or Qbus? (I have a
> >11/44 and a 11/83)
>
> If we're talking about the same thing, TENEX ran on a modified PDP-10.
It was a precursor to TOPS-10 (at least I think it
was).
>
> If you could find a tape image it might run on one of the
> many pdp-10 emulators, but I think it wants some special
> paging hardware BBN created and this might not be emulated.
>
> I've never seen any TENEX images.
>
> Most folks seem to run TOPS-20 and ITS on the pdp-10
> emulators. You might be happier with those and there are
> plenty of tape & disk images.
>
> -brad
>