4 Jun
2009
4 Jun
'09
3:14 p.m.
On 04/06/2009 15:26, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Living with the 16-bitness of the processor? 4BSD on
a VAX was at one
point, "the pinnacle" of the UNIX experience ("All the world's a
VAX"). Massive address space, no need for overlays, etc. 2BSD is
more representative of what people went through before 1978, with
enough similarity to a modern environment that you can dabble without
getting lost (older UNIX is missing lots of stuff that most of us take
for granted anymore).
On a couple of occasions I've taken a PDP-11/23plus with dual RL02s into
Computer Science for Open Days, to show it running 7th Edition. Always
used to get a lot of interest, exactly because there's enough similarity
that people can find their way around, but enough things missing that
they notice (one of those things is speed, of course!).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York