Foonly

From: Pat Barron <pat_at_transarc.ibm.com>
Date: Fri Aug 3 08:49:20 2001

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Bill Pechter wrote:
> > > All this talk makes me wonder (and I know this question has been answered
> > > before, but I have forgotten): what equipment did they use to do the
> > > computer graphics in movie Tron?
> >
> > The "Flooney F1" which was a PDP-10 clone. TRON is apparently a PDP-10
> > opcode. What I can't remember is what OS they used.
> >
> > Zane
>
> Foonly F1...
>
> I believe they ran a Tops-10 varient.

Actually, the Foonly ran a variant of TENEX, which was the predecessor to
TOPS-20.

(which reminds me - if anyone has, or knows where to find, a copy of any
distribution of TENEX on magtape, please contact me....)

--Pat.
Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 08:49:20 BST