21 Dec
2016
21 Dec
'16
9:14 a.m.
Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Noel Chiappa wrote:
I found this text:
Full ITS first ran on the AI PDP6, and was ported to the DM PDP6.
Later, PDP10s became available, and the labs acquired some of the
earliest ones -- the AI-KA10 (AI Lab's machine), the ML KA-10 (used
by the MathLab, Theory of Computation, Automatic Programming, and
certain other LCS gruops), and the DMS KA-10 (Dynamic Modeling
systems, also used by certain other LCS groups); these replaced the
PDP-6s, which were slowly phased out.
So it seems the DM PDP-6 indeed ran ITS, at least for a while.
I don't know about the software run on the
two PDP-6's - by the time
I arrived at MIT, they were both powered off and never, as far as I
know, ever ran again. I would _assume_ that it ran ITS.
Pure speculation, but I
suppose that since the DynaMod group got their
10 shortly after the 6, they may have focused on getting the 10 up and
running. Maybe they didn't bother to make the 6 run in timesharing mode.