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101:(funded by the US federal government), they came back to Berkeley and collected enough information to begin manufacturing. Because SDS manufacturing was overloaded with the 9 series production and the startup of the Sigma Series production, it could not incorporate the 940 modifications into the standard production line. Instead, production of the 940s was turned over to the Systems Engineering Department, which manufactured systems customised to user requirements. To produce a 940, the Systems Engineering Department ordered a 930 from SDS manufacturing, installed the modifications developed by the Berkeley engineers, and shipped machine to the SDS customer as a 940. 93:
were among the young technical leaders of that project. When completed and in service, the first 940 ran reliably in spite of its array of tricky mechanical issues such as a huge disk drive driven by hydraulic arms. It served about forty or fifty users at a time and still managed to drive a graphics
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with Extended Core Storage. Lampson was only involved until 1969, but Cal TSS continued until 1971. Several members of project Genie such as Pirtle, Thacker, Deutsch and Lampson left UCB to form the Berkeley Computer Corporation (BCC), which produced one prototype, the BCC-500. After BCC went
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bankrupt after its funding from the computer mainframe lessor Data Processing Financial & General (DPF&G) suddenly stopped, the BCC-500 was transferred to the
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SDS 940 was created by modifying an SDS 930 24-bit commercial computer so that it could be used for timesharing. The work was funded by
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Project Genie pioneered several computer hardware techniques, such as commercial time-sharing which allowed end-user programming in
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In 1968, Lampson also helped design a different timesharing system at Berkeley: Cal TSS for the
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When SDS realized the value of the time sharing system, and that the software was in the
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and was the first computer used by the Community Memory Project at Berkeley.
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and directed by Melvin W. Pirtle and Wayne Lichtenberger at UC Berkeley.
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at that time. The project was a smaller counterpart to
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worked on an SDS 940 while at Berkeley). An SDS 940
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Index

Genie (disambiguation)
computer
University of California, Berkeley
time-sharing
Berkeley Timesharing System
SDS 940
J. C. R. Licklider
Information Processing Techniques Office
MIT
Project MAC
Scientific Data Systems
ARPA
Butler Lampson
Chuck Thacker
L. Peter Deutsch
public domain
machine language
protected memory
TENEX
PDP-10
Unix
process forking
Ken Thompson
mainframe
Douglas Engelbart
OnLine System
Stanford Research Institute
CDC 6400
University of Hawaii
ALOHAnet

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