mirror of
https://github.com/PDP-10/its.git
synced 2026-01-13 15:27:28 +00:00
47 lines
2.0 KiB
Plaintext
Executable File
47 lines
2.0 KiB
Plaintext
Executable File
|
||
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.
|
||
|