14 Jun
2005
14 Jun
'05
3:09 p.m.
On 6/14/05, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Not necessarily a lynch mob, but many 1982/1983 models
of PDP-11 are
somewhat easy to get UNIX running on (presuming one has enough disk).
Well, you can stick Unix on a Sun 3 and Macintosh II and both of those
have a multiplier of 2. Perhaps some shuffling of processors and
machines is in order for next year, when I know more and I don't end
up disappointing people by changing a rule to their detriment.
Now my knowledge of the PDP is, admittedly, near nil. I have a
digital catalog from 1984 next to me, and it suggests that you could
add an array of three disks for a total of 1.4 GB. Would that work on
most PDP/11's? I don't know. Perhaps you can answer that one (the
drive is an RA81). It also suggests that it would only take 5.5
square feet. Which probably explains my lack of interest in
collecting minis.
So I'm not really sure if an -8 deserves a
multipler of 3, or more
than 3... certainly not less, and certainly no less than a CP/M
machine.
The amount of memory it could address appeared to be similar to the
earliest personal computers, hence the three. Perhaps you're correct
about the list needing a more flexible bottom, because a 4kB machine
will be nowhere near as capable as a 64kK machine.