1983 UBC PDP-11 Unix tools distribution

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 6 06:01:19 CST 2019


On 3/6/19 1:07 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Brent Hilpert via cctalk 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?
> 
> Between 1985 and 1990 I became aquainted with a guy named Jim Stewart 
> who was teaching VAX/VMS programming for DEC in Vancouver and had a 
> previous life administering and programming VAX/VMS machines at TRIUMF.
> 

I know TRIUMF had Vaxen.  I ended out with a few of them many, many
years ago.  Still run them.

bill




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