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Booting 42nix 2.5 on a Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1

42nix (a 4.2 BSD variant) boots on a Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1, an also-ran mid-1980s Unix workstation based on the NS32016 processor. The MG-1 has its own windowing system called Oriel (named after the architectural window style, one assumes, not the Oxford college with a surplus of Cecil Rhodes statues). More on Oriel here: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/i... We log in and run the clock program (called "ben"---the MG-1 was designed and built in London) and an early graphical text editor called "spy" (mentioned here: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/i.... Before that, the entire boot sequence of the computer, fairly typical for a graphical Unix workstation of the time. After a gray screen of vertical bars, the computer displays an intricate pattern of incrementing binary words, arranged in columns. The boot monitor appears next, with black serif text on a white background, similar to what some Sun workstations used. The operating system boots, soon presenting an undecorated text window centred on a halftone-gray background. After boot messages typical for 4.2 BSD, the window manager starts, the background becomes lighter, and the window moves upward and leftward and receives a title bar and frame. Soon a login prompt appears and we log in as root with no password. We start "ben" and an analogue clock window appears at lower right; next, the "spy" editor starts in a new window and presents a primitive menu-driven, multi-panel interface.