Everything you always wanted to know about

SEL32 and UTX/32

but were afraid to ask.



Read about the history of SEL, later Gould/SEL, family of Concept and PowerNode computers in previous century and its revival in current century:


Here are the slides (pdf) of my talk at NLUUG NJ23 Conference in Utrecht:


Watch a cold start of a PowerNode 6040 upto fire breathing….


Overview of UTX/32 v2.1 documentation (work in progress)


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UTX/32 release 2.1 Documentation Guide

UTX/32 release 2.1 Real-Time User’s Guide

UTX/32 release 2.1 BSD User’s Reference Manual

UTX/32 release 2.1 System V User’s Reference Manual

UTX/32 release 2.1 Input/Output Subsystem Guide

UTX/32 release 2.0 Network File System (NFS) Guide

UTX/32S Release 1.1 Network File System (NFS) Guide

UTX/32 release 2.1 Remote Job Entry (RJE) Guide

UTX/32 Assembler Reference Manual

UTX/32 FORTRAN 77 Reference Manual

UTX/32 release 2.1 BSD Programmer’s Reference Manual

UTX/32 release 2.1 System V Programmer’s Ref Manual

UTX/32 release 2.1 Special Files Reference Manual

UTX/32 release 2.1A Software Release Notes

UTX/32 release 2.1 Installation Guide

UTX/32 release 2.1 Operations Guide

UTX/32 release 2.1 System Administrator’s Ref Manual

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: Getting Started

  • Unix for Beginners, Learn

UTX/32 Supplement. Docs: Communications for Users

  • mail ref, net news, usenet

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: Text Editors

  • ed, edit, ex, vi, advanced editing, sed, awk

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: Document Preparation

  • n/troff, -ms, -me, eqn, tbl, spell, refer, style, diction

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: Basic Utilities

  • sh, csh, dc, bc, make, sccs

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: Programming Tools

  • adb, dbx, m4, lex, yacc, curses/termcap, ratfor

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: System Communications

  • Sendmail, 4.3 BSD networking, UUCP

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: System Programming

  • sockets, select, semaphores, messages, shared mem, 4.3 BSD architecture, UNIX time sharing, 32/V summary, UNIX implementation, - I/O system

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: Programming Languages

  • UNIX progr, C, I/O, f77, Berkeley Pascal, EFL

UTX/32 Supplementary Docs: System Management

  • bind, timed, fsck, fast file system, quota, lp spooler, changes 4.3 BSD, kernel changes, security, passwd security, nroff tty descriptions

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At GitHub you will find SEL32 sources, install sets that will give you a running UTX/32 v2.1B installed from three install magtapes.

When that works here are some things to proceed:

Components of the above kit file and more are here for download:



ALL SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.


Any questions?

Contact me at:

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Version November 25, 2023