wca@ut-ngp.UUCP (William C. Anderson) (10/04/84)
I've just gotten wind of a new line of Unix workstations from Tektronix.
The slightly confused salesman gave me the following information:
----- Tektronix 6000 series Workstations -----
HARDWARE
Processor : National 32016 ( formerly 16032 ? )
Coprocessors : National 32081 ( formerly 16081 ? )
National MMU ( don't know old or new numbers )
Disk : Internal Winchester Drive(s) 10-80 MB
Floppy Drive ( 360 KB )
Display(s) : Monochromatic : 640x480 scrolled in 1024x1024 OR
Monochromatic : 1024x768 ( scrolled ? ) OR
16 Color : 640x480 ( scrolled ? ) OR
16 Color : 1280x1024 ( 4115B display - beautiful ) OR
256 Color : 1280x1024 ( ditto )
RAM : 1 MB Standard
Expandable with 512KB, 1MB, and 2MB boards
LAN Interface : IEEE 802 Ethernet
Miscellaneous : Multiple RS232/RS422 Ports
IEEE488 Port
Several Expansion Slots
SOFTWARE
OS : UTEK, Tektronix' implementation of Unix 4.2bsd (!)
Other SW : Windowing package
Other Applications
----- END OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ( or RUMORS if you prefer ) -----
The small versions of this look similar to the 4404 box ( which uses 4.2bsd
as it's kernel, I was told ). The best thing about these is the price.
The smallest is in the $10K region, while the workstation based on the
4115B display ( which is the most beautiful color display I've ever seen )
with 1 MB RAM and 40 MB disk is in the $32K range, quite a bit cheaper
than competitive color boxes with much less impressive grephics.
The sales rep claimed that these were introduced this week. Does anybody
know about them? Has anybody seen them?
C'mon, Tektronix, I know you're out there. If the sales reps will talk
about them, then you Tektronix weenies can tell all of us on the net
about your new products. Let's hear it.
William Anderson
CompCenter - The University of Texas at Austin
wca@ut-ngp.{ARPA UUCP}
"Monsters, John! Monsters from the id!"steveg@hammer.UUCP (10/07/84)
Specs on the Tek 6000 Workstations are as follows: There are 6 models in 2 series. All members use the National 32000 series CPUs. Our version of Unix (TM), called UTek is based on 4.2 with lots of System V stuff pulled over. The 6100 series coes in 3 models (all 32016 based): 6110 execute only box runing a real time operating system 256K RAM, 360K floppy 6120 mini-UTek with an interactive basic compiler/intereter layered on top (kernel is complete just a subset of utilities due to disk space limitations). 1MB RAM, 10MB disk, 360K floppy 6130 Standard UTek based workstation, 1MB memory, 20 MB disk, 360K floppy. All 6100 series come with 2 RS-323-C Async ports, medium speed GPIB, IEEE 802.3 LAN (ethernet). Available options include display (640 x 480 13" color or 640 x 480 15" monochrome), printer and hardcopy interfaces (centronics compatable), general purpose parallel ports, high speed GPIB, additional serial ports, SCSI interface, and PC coprocessor (runs MS-DOS). The display includes an additional 32016 CPU. Options are available to substitute either a 10, 20, 40, or 80 Mbyte disk for the standard drive. An external 40 Mbyte cartridge tape is also available. The 6200 series also comes in 3 models. All contain a 32016 based I/O processor (2 ST560 style disk, LAN, 3 RS-323-C async ports, 1 RS-232-C/RS-422 async/sync port, centronics compatable printer/hardcopy port, SCSI interface for internal tape and floppy). 6205 32016 based system, 1MB ram, 40 Mbyte disk, 5 slot cage 6210 32032 based system, 1MB ram, 40 Mbyte disk, 7 slot cage 6212 dual 32032 based system, 4MB ram, 80 Mdisk, 7 slot cage The 6200 series display contains an independant 32016 (or 32032) processor (with up to 12 Mbytes of RAM), a microcoded display list processor (for both BitBlt and line drawing primitives). Screen is a 19 inch screen 1024 x 768 pixels color or monochrome. Available options include: additional disk drive (40 or 80 Mbytes) substitute standard drive for an 80 various expansion ram configurations multibus adapter providing connectoins for SMD disk controller w/ up to 4 280 Mbyte drives 9-track tape controller for 1600 BPI streaming drive versatec printer/plotter interface additional printer and hardcopy interfaces (centronics compatable), general purpose parallel ports, high speed GPIB, additional serial ports, SCSI interface All display systems come with a keyboard and mouse. Tablets are also available. We have done a significant ammount of work in software. UTek is a 4.2 based system. We have added shared memory between processes (fork is now done with copy on write, vfork is gone), a distributed file system (you can even cd to a remote directory). We have cleaned up the network server area (we have a tcp server instead of having 20 or so proceses around waiting for connections). We use the MDQS print spooler and the MH mailer (with sendmail underneath) Manuals have gotten a thorough going over. There are many new tutorials. Man pages have been verified against the code for accuracy (including error returns, error messages, etc.). Examples have been added to many of the manual pages. For further details, contact your local Tek sales office or call (800)547-1512 (in Oregon call (800)452-1877). Steve Glaser, Tektronix ECS Engineering, tektronix!steveg
sohail@terak.UUCP (10/10/84)
> Specs on the Tek 6000 Workstations are as follows: > > There are 6 models in 2 series. All members use the National 32000 > series CPUs. Our version of Unix (TM), called UTek is based on 4.2 > with lots of System V stuff pulled over. I have heard that not all of these models are available today does any one have more info on what is available today? sohail -- Sohail Hussain uucp: ...{decvax,hao,ihnp4,seismo}!noao!terak!sohail phone: 602 998 4800 us mail: Terak Corporation, 14151 N 76th street, Scottsdale, AZ 85260