From 959babec20e0f7a50d0368ed386b98ddf1a99637 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Brinkhoff Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:04:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Goodbye to MX. Formerly MC KL10. --- doc/cent/mx.adieu | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) create mode 100755 doc/cent/mx.adieu diff --git a/doc/cent/mx.adieu b/doc/cent/mx.adieu new file mode 100755 index 00000000..10ec82d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/cent/mx.adieu @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ + +MSG: MX ADIEU +DISTRIB: *MD, *ML, *MC, *AI +EXPIRES: 09/23/88 21:39:25 +CENT@AI.AI.MIT.EDU 09/08/88 21:39:25 Re: The end of the world as we used to know it +"The time has come," said LCS, + "MX at last must go. +Its day has gone. We need that space + Most urgently." And so +Before we crate it, let us give + A final cheerio. + +Once there was a KL-10 called MIT-MC which belonged to the Macsyma +Consortium. It provided Macsyma, the symbolic algebra system, to +researchers all over the world, and mail gatewaying and mailing list +support to a large fraction of the Arpanet. Things continued in this +fashion from 1975 to 1983. + +When the Macsyma Consortium dissolved in 1983, MC turned to providing +cycles for MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, and continued supporting +much of the Arpanet's mail service. But the machine itself was growing old +and cranky. In 1986, the mail services were moved to a smaller, more +maintainable machine (a KS-10), and the name "MC" was moved with them. +But the KL-10 continued to run under the new name "MX". + +Now the end has come. MX was down cold for several months, and has only +been revived recently to copy some old 7-track tapes. LCS can't keep MX +any longer -- it needs the space for other purposes. So the KL is being +sent to the Home for Aged But Beloved PDP-10s; a crack team of hardware +hackers will arrive next week to dismantle it and take it back with them to +Sweden. + +In celebration of this momentous event, we are holding a small farewell +gathering: + Friday, 16 September 1988 + 16:00 + NE43-8th floor playroom + (545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA) + +Reservations are strenuously requested (though not strictly necessary) -- +we need a head count so we can figure out how many trays of institutional +brownies to order. Send yours to: + CENT@AI.AI.MIT.EDU + +Offers of refreshement are also very welcome -- do you think we have any +budget for this kind of thing? Send all such offers also to CENT as above. + \ No newline at end of file