TENEX (was: Re:C on the PDP-10 is a *bitch*) (Score 1)

Just a minor correction - TENEX isn't a "UNIX-alike for PDP-10s". Actually, TENEX looks an awful lot like TOPS-20, and after DEC purchased the rights to it, became the core of what eventually became TOPS-20. TENEX itself only ever ran on the KA10 with the BBN Pager box. There was a version called "KI-TENEX" that was targetted to the KI10, but I don't remember if it was ever finished. Oh, yeah, TENEX also ran on MAXC, which was a clone of the KA10 that was done at Xerox PARC, and a modified TENEX ran on the Foonly machines (which were PDP-10 "mostly compatible" systems).

Speaking of Foonly, it's worth pointing out that the Foonly F1 (and I do mean the F1 - only one was ever built, derived from the work of the Stanford "SuperFoonly" project) was used to generate the animation for "TRON", "Flight of the Navigator", and other movies.

Anyway, if anyone knows the whereabouts of any copy of the TENEX software still in existence, please let me know - I've been looking for quite a while now, and everyone who I thought might have it, doesn't ...

--Pat.