Hardware vs Simh

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:32:00AM -0400, Toby Thain wrote: Nice -- I totally did have a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from the DZ11 dist panel on my 11/34a in the 1980s! I can see how multi-hour SYSGENs are a trip for people who have a choice, but they were no fun in the old days when we didn't (especially swapping packs multiple times, with a risk of expensive damage at every step -- and a floppy-only SYSGEN is not funny) so I'm extremely relieved that those days are over. But of course, I'm biased. And I certainly did get a big kick out of it when I first got E11's raw floppy driver working and was able to boot RT-11 from 8"-workalike 5.25" disks. I didn't realize that series of clicks and whirs had been so deeply imprinted on my brain! John Wilson D Bit