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
