11 May
2013
11 May
'13
9:23 a.m.
As one you has never really had DEC PDP-11 or Vax
experience to any extent, I look at those computers and think more about wanting to put
Ultrix or some other Unix/BSD/Linux system on them and don't think nostalgic about DEC
operating systems. My first big computer experience (not counting some timeshare Basic
programming on MECC/MERITS systems in Minnesota) from 1977 to 1981 in college was with
Harris computers running Vulcan or VOS. That is my frame of reference for major computer,
followed by SunOS/Solaris. Today my operating system of choice is Linux (e.g., Xubuntu).
Having said that, I do have a healthy respect and admiration to those of you here who
know PDP-11 and Vax systems, plus before that PDP-8 and things like OS/8. Let alone the
various obscure systems. I just can't relate at the same time.
Kevin Anderson
a lurking subscriber from Iowa
And VOS isn't obscure??? You might just be the first person I've ever heard
mention it. My first work in computers was on a Harris running VOS. Gotta love a system
where you can get Super-Vulcan access.
Zane