11 Jun
2004
11 Jun
'04
4:43 p.m.
> Heh. When I first came to Montreal, we had a VAX
running VMS,
> supporting the whole lab. Multitasking.
> I don't know how much RAM it had, but more
than 8M would surprise
> me. This _was_ 1980. Heck, we had only about 30M of _disk_!
The 11/750 [...]
But VMS 3.x will run in 2MB for certain... not sure
about VMS 4.0.
I think this was 3.x. Fuzzy memory says 3.6, 3.7, something like that.
Not sure what you would have had in the lab in 1980,
but it was
probably an 11/780.
Oh, yes, definitely a 780. I remember _that_ much. Somewhat later, we
got some 750s; that was about the time we first got a real Unix in -
BSD 4.1c; later, BSD 4.2....
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