11 Feb
2016
11 Feb
'16
4:08 p.m.
tor 2016-02-11 klockan 13:41 -0800 skrev Glen Slick:
My memories from the early 1980s are of a room full of
undergrads
working on rows of VT100s (maybe 50+ at least?) on a DECSYSTEM-2065
running TOPS-20.
Things usually seemed to run pretty well on that system, until the
night before programming assignments were due.
Nothing quite like a room full of VT100s beeping in unison and
printing the dreaded "%DECSYSTEM-20 not running" message when things
hit the maximum load, followed by waiting for the system to restart
and hoping your work in progress was saved recently.
I'm to young but in my case it was:
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NFS server gandalf not responding, still trying
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For the next two-thre-eight hours until the institutions admins
came and restarted the poor 4/490.
That poor NFS-server had Fujitsu IP-disks