5 Mar
2019
5 Mar
'19
10:07 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe,
that's not where
you anticipate UNIX showing up.
But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX?
Between 1985 and 1990 I became aquainted with a guy named Jim Stewart who
was teaching VAX/VMS programming for DEC in Vancouver and had a previous
life administering and programming VAX/VMS machines at TRIUMF.
Even three or four years ago Dow Chemical was still using VAXen running VMS
to manage their chemical plant(s) near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta and some
time earlier the last surviving L-1011 (or was it a DC10?) flight simulator
was in Vancouver and it was controlled by a VAX-11/7?? long after VAXen had
fallen out of fashion.
PDP11 boxes and VAXen show up in some really obscure places.
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