From fetch Tue Oct 10 02:37:45 2000 Article: 10161 of alt.sys.pdp10 From: budd@csa.bu.edu (Phil Budne) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: stuff [was photos of TOPS-10 teams] Date: 10 Oct 2000 06:33:33 GMT Message-ID: <8rud7t$o46$1@news3.bu.edu> John Everett wrote: In article , >>In article <8rq8ob$aqr$1@fe2.cs.interbusiness.it>, jk3380@naida.org says... >>Is there a site with photos of the teams that worked on TOPS-10 and >>HW; I'd like to have a look at the people that did all this stuff >>when I was not even a teenager! ..... >Somewhere recently (last couple of years or so) I've seen an old picture of a >very young Bob Clements (RCC), but can't remember where. http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/ Look in the section "Developers, DECUS, People"; There's also a photo of Jim Flemming (JMF) and Tony Wachs (TW) in front of a 1091 (KL10 in a short blue cab). >There's also a picture somewhere of the KS-10 hardware team, but I don't know >where that's located either. http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/timeline.html look down to 1978 for the 2020. many photos. >I've never come across any other pictures of either the hardware or software >development teams. There's a photo of the PDP-6 team. I know I have hardcopies (one in a DEC newsletter, and one in a glossy anniversary brochure I got Alan Kotok to sign at his DEC retirement dinner). I just put up a PDP-10 page of my own at www.ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/ which includes the entire LCG organization, taken on the 20th anniversary of 36-bit systems (1984) and other tidbits I've collected. I have some notes that must have come from some publication made that year; PDP-6 development team; Harlan Anderson, VP of Eng Gordon Bell, System Architect Alan Kotok, Asst. Architect, Logic Designer Russ Doane, Circuits Ken Senior(?), Field Service Bob Reed, Technician Leo Gussall(?), Diagnostics Dit Morse, Software Project Leader Tom Hastings, Dave Gross; Monitor Harris Hyman, Steve Pinar; MACRO Tom Eggers; DDT Bell Segal; Utilities Peter Sampson, Al Blackington; FORTRAN Ed Yourdon (yep, that one); LOADER [Ironicly, I was working for Al Blackingington at the time, who had returned to DEC, to work on .... FORTRAN!] ================ TOPS-10 Evolution 1964-66 1.4-1.9 PDP-6 Support, DECtape only, 27 jobs (UFA, 1 bit per job) 1967 2.18 KA support, disk support, shuffler 1968 3.27 swapping, 36 jobs (using JFFO) 1969 4.50 dual segments 4.72 CCL, 63 jobs 1970 5.01 TOPS-10, Disk Service rewrite (Phase I) 1971 5.02 MPB (batch), RTTRP (real time), Disk Service rewrite (phase II) 1972 5.03 1055 multiprocessor (dual KA) 5.04 KI support 1973 5.05 1077 support (dual KI) 5.06 SFDs (subdirectories) 1974 5.07/6.01 KL support, VM, IPCF (interprocess communication) 1975 6.02 1088 support (dual KL), class shced, RP04/6 ENQ/DEQ (resource locking), Galaxy I (spooling) 1977/78 6.03/A 1091 (MOS memory, RH20), ANF (PDP-10 comm network) FILDAE (file access daemon) 1979 7.00 SMP (limited) 1980/82 7.01/A SMP (full), logical names, Galaxy 4.1 1984 7.02 DECnet-10 Phase III ================ KA teams, 1967 Hardware: Alan Kotok Bob Clements Dave Gross Bill English (documentation) Software: Tom Hastings Tony Wachs Dave Plummer Don whitcraft Alan Frantz Pat White Valdeane Alusic Penny Land Mauri Fredrickson Joe Fries Nick Pappas Tom Eliot (documentation) ================ PDP-6 SOftware - 1965 T/S monitor 5K DECtape editor 1K FORTRAN II 10K to 22K FORSE 1.5K (fortran runtime) MACRO 9K Loader 1K DDT 3K PIP 1K ================ PDP-6 User's Guide (Entire) IJOB Initialize Job PJOB Print Job number KJOB Kill Job CORE n Allocate core for JOB GET dev:file Load program into core SAVE dev:file START loc CONTINUE DDT ASSIGN dev: ^C (could be typed with one hand - tom hastings) ================ DECtape editor commands; SX,name select "name" on DECtape unix X In insert line at n Pn print line at n E end of session ================ BBN TENEX team; Ted Strollo, Project Supervisor Jerry Birchfield, Ray Tomlinson; Hardware (BB&N Pager) Dan Murphy; Scheduler, Pager Ray Tomlinson; File system, I/O drivers John Barnaby; EXEC, date/time Ted Strollo; FLIN/FLOUT ================ 1964 PDP-6 Single relocation/protection register 1966 BB&N simulated paging in software on PDP-1 1967 KA10 Dual protection registers 1970 BB&N paging box for KA - TENEX 1972 KI10 1973 KI10 Tenex 1975 KL10 w/ KI10 paging 1976 DECSYSTEM-20 has TENEX paging in microcode ================ TOPS-20 Evolution 2/76 1 First release 4/76 1A LPT, CDR 10/76 1B Maint release 12/76 101B ARPA support 7/77 2 mountable structures, quotas 3/78 3 2780, 3780, account validation, subdirs, larger dirs merged in ARPA support 4/78 3A DECnet Phase II, 2060, 2020 4/80 4 performance ctrls(?), tape labels, GALAXY ACJ (access control job), RAMP, archiving, execute-only 6/82 5 extended addressing, RP07, TU78, NVT (network virt. terminals) 3/83 5.1 DECnet Phase III 12/82 5.2 TCP/IP support (BBN JSYS interface) 6/83 5.3 DEC TCP/IP interface (TCP: device) ================ TENEX -> TOPS-20 (1973-1976) Rewrite; System Init Filesys update strategy directory structure tape handler KL Hardware; KL processor memory parity I/O devices DTE RSX-20F BOOT Additions; Search lists Logical names IPCF ENQ/DEQ COMND/TEXTI BAT blocks Backup of root PTYs Wildcards Naming; 1970 TENEX 1972 -> DEC TENEX VIROS John Lange called it VIRUS SNARK KRANS (snark backwards -- funeral wreath in swedish) SNARK (with forks and hope) TOPS-20 ================ Early TOPS-20 Team; Software; Dan Murphy Peter Hurley Arnold Miller Len Bosack Tom Hastings Ron McClean (RSX-20F) Roland Belanger Tom Porcher (?) Judy Hall Docs; Susan Porada Twig McGee Maria Bonsavage Ed Svcs; Claire Grant ================ System thruput; 1055 1.6-1.8*KA 1077 1.3-1.5*KI 1088 0.8-1.2*KL 1099SMP 1.7*KL TRI SMP 2.6*KL TOPS-20 CFS = 1.6-1.8*KL