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Further work on article[edit]

Someone could read this paper and expand the article:

Ward, S.A. TRIX: a Network-oriented Operating System. COMPCON, Spring 1980, pp. 344-349.

- Lentower 00:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is it available anywhere?[edit]

Was it ever published? If yes, does anyone know where or how to get a copy? This should be added to the article, and if it's is not available and/or was never available, that too should be mentioned. Gronky 12:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Source Code? I don't remember. Might have been up for FTP at some point. The FSF tape archive or Prof. Ward migth have a tape in an old format -- could be hard to read. Mag tapes corrupt in several years.
Referred papers in computer science journals and proceedings? Yes. Google.com or the SEoYC, will turn up some of the citations. Might also be on Steve Ward's pages or the on-line archive of old LCS publications at csail.mit.edu.
best -Lentower 14:22, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article name?[edit]

Trix or TRIX? In the article itself TRIX is used and that's what I see elsewhere. So maybe renaming is in order. 85.77.165.59 (talk) 09:33, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

68000[edit]

The article mentions that it was developed on an "obscure, expensive 68000 box" - is this in fact the NuMachine? It actually used a Motorola 68010, which was very similar. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 14:18, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first two sentences have different tense[edit]

TRIX is a ... system developed ... by ... group. It ran ..., but was ... a ... workalike.

It can't ran if it is. It should run if it is, or ran if it was. Awhit003 (talk) 02:31, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]