test-drb August 2001

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DEC Doc's Wanted (was: Re: Wanted: Old issues of DEC Professional)

by mbg＠world.std.com

>None that I'm willing to part with, I'm also looking for these, "RSTS >Professional", "Digital Technical Journal", and any other magazines DEC >put out. Although DTJ was a DEC publication, RSTS professional, VAX professional and DEC professional were not... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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Ebay madness

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 3, Sellam Ismail wrote: > > I wish eBay had a "wish bid" system...if the starting bid is Just > > Too Ridiculous, a non-binding "bid" that could be entered as an "in > > case you don't get any opening bids for this" situation. > > ...or you could e-mail him with an offer :) I think I might. :) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

25 years, 1 month

Ebay madness

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 3, Russ Blakeman wrote: > I picked one up 3 months ago at a yard sale for $1.25 and sold t for $25 > just last month - this guy is smoking some crack, the butt cheek kind. > > -> -----Original Message----- > -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Messick, Gary > -> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:40 PM > -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > -> Subject: Ebay madness > -> > -> > -> Is it just me? What are the odds this guy gets it? > -> > -> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1260881309 Neat. The last one I saw went on eBay for well over a thousand dollars. Who's smoking that crack? ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

25 years, 1 month

PDP-11/23 PLUS commercial instruction set (CIS)

by CAA007216＠mail.ono.es

Hello. Anybody knows of somebody that could sell or obtain the two CIS (commercial instruction set) chips for one PDP-11/23 PLUS ? I have the Floating Point option installed and I'd like to has this option too. Greetings and Best Regards from Spain Sergio

25 years, 1 month

Foonly

by sieler＠allegro.com

Re: > Actually, the Foonly ran a variant of TENEX, which was the predecessor to > TOPS-20. TOPS-10 was from DEC, and TENEX from BBN (Bolt, Beranek, Newman)... did DEC acquire TENEX from BBN? Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler

25 years, 1 month

CRAY EL-98

by sieler＠allegro.com

Re: > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1261319145 > > > Here's a rather unusual auction on eBay...a CRAY EL-98, > >supposedly functional, with OS backup tapes, and which supposedly > >came from Apple. If for nothing else, it's interesting for the > >pictures the seller has posted. I remember Carl Sassenrath telling me that he used a Cray while at Apple (post-Amiga, so that wasn't being done to design the first Mac, anyway). IIRC, they were simulating instruction sets or hardware with it? (I wonder: Power PC?) Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler

25 years, 1 month

Z8000

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 3, Bill Pechter wrote: > The Z8000 included the Zilog (later Exxon Office Systems) Zeus office > automation Unix boxes... > > They were SystemIII and used by the US Government's Internal Revenue > Service through 1993 or so. > > They later adopted Pyramid multiprocessor RISC boxes. I had one of those for a while, about ten years ago. A Model 41, the big one. I really, REALLY liked that machine. It was quite respectably zippy, but had no networking capability whatsoever. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

25 years, 1 month

SunOS (er... Solaris)

by pjschilling＠gcstech.net

I was pretty sure of that but didn't want any trouble caused for the group. Thanks Bill Phil -----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Bill Bradford Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 4:18 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: SunOS (er... Solaris) On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:37:29PM -0500, Phil Schilling wrote: > I have the sparc/intel cd that I purchased, can I legally make iso for you? > mrbill could probably answer for us. Yeah - the "hobbyist/non-commercial" license covers all versions of Solaris. Basically, as long as its less than 8 CPUs, and not being used for a commercial purpose, you can copy Solaris for your buddies. Bill (http://www.sunhelp.org) -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

25 years, 1 month

My other computer is a Cray!

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 3, Will Jennings wrote: > No, Apple Network Servers run AIX... They're from the days when IBM, > Motorola, and Apple worked so closely on the PowerPC that the Apple Network > Servers really did run AIX... Oh, neat! I never knew that. > Anyways, the front ends for Cray's, at least > in the 80's, were VAXen, DEC had a deal with Cray to sell VAXen specifically > as Cray front-ends. I gave all my Systems and Options catalogs away, but > some of them did have the VAX front-end systems in them... Are we talking about front-ends, or console processors? Earlier, Heinz made mention of the SPARC5 doing NFS...that's the console processor of a J90. Earlier Crays run as attached processors with front-end computers. The job runs on the front-end and it ships data to and from the backend at high speed as needed...users didn't "log into" the Cray directly. Today's Crays (and indeed going back about fifteen years or so) run Unicos (a Unix variant) which is a direct-login system...so there's no "front-end" in the old sense of the word. They do, however, use console processors...in the case of the J90, it's an unmodified Sun SPARC5 computer running Solaris (usually 2.4) which handles console operations. It communicates with another SPARC5...a VME64 board in the IOS card cage that netboots a special chunk of code (i.e. not SunOS or Solaris) that handles diags, initialization, booting, and runtime I/O for the Cray processor(s). Most Crays can have multiples of these systems, called IOSs. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

25 years, 1 month

My other computer is a Cray!

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

No, Apple Network Servers run AIX... They're from the days when IBM, Motorola, and Apple worked so closely on the PowerPC that the Apple Network Servers really did run AIX... Anyways, the front ends for Cray's, at least in the 80's, were VAXen, DEC had a deal with Cray to sell VAXen specifically as Cray front-ends. I gave all my Systems and Options catalogs away, but some of them did have the VAX front-end systems in them... Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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