PDP1 3620

Well other, but especially Bob Taylor and those at the Hist. of Personal Workstations Conf. cite credit in LINC -- start of luggable computers and

I am amused that Lynn has not popped in to push TSO.

The problem at this time was the mentality that a SUN-1 could support 15-16 people on it. I got this from an old guy at Edward AFB at NASA Dryden.

Most people won't realize or remember that both IBM had a mainframe DOS (which I never used which was nothing like DRI or MS (Seattle really) and I only very briefly used DEC-DOS (mostly using at that time RT-11). And I will never forget that the Fortran on that wrote to Device 5 and read from device 6. That was a matter to avoid dreaded IBM complaints if not legal action.

Mmmmm. That's a tough call to me. On one hand, we could have had workstations much sooner (Xerox). But there was a real address space problem of that time. I know the supercomputer guys really thought all these smaller machines were real jokes (characterized as computer sugar). Mash is still warm on VUPs. I suspect that's a transition issue to using integrated circuits over discrete components.

This gets into the touchy issue of running a business of making computers (the infrastructure question). It's a business as well as a hardware issue (which also defeated Cray).

Even before Soul came out, I was looking at a job which had Primes. It should also be noted, care of Dennis, that Unix could have gone on an Interdata 7-32 and later 8-32 and later Perkin-Elmer.

The problem in characterizing this was DEC's early broad market in places like hospitals which had MUMPS, etc. Mainframes have been rather expensive process control engines. And we have few people knowledgeable about the IBM Series 1.

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