6 Mar
2019
6 Mar
'19
10:14 a.m.
Brent Hilpert writes:
On 2019-Mar-05, at 10:07 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
> TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I
believe, that's not
> where you anticipate UNIX showing up.
> But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX?
Well, I don't know for certain, I was just trying
to recall where I was
aware of there being /11's around campus.
I had the impression from somewhere at the time that /11s were running
the cyclotron, or were present in some significant capacity at TRIUMF.
When I toured SLAC at Stanford in the late '90s I was surprised to
see the miles and miles of coax from the collider's sensors/detectors
terminating at a long row of PDP-11s. Turns out the '11s had custom-
designed boards that filtered out all the crap from the collider
events before passing the "useful" data upstream for analysis.
(This is based on questions I asked the grad student conducting the
tour.) I never thought to ask which OS the '11s were running.
Maybe TRIUMF was doing something similar?
--lyndon