4 Jun
2009
4 Jun
'09
3:42 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
On 04/06/2009 15:26, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Interesting, I didn't know a /23 could run V7--all I know for sure is
that it works on /45s and /70s. Do you know any other machines it runs
on? I'd like to try installing on my 11/73 (KDJ11-A) if possible.
John
--
"I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS
reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C,
Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
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!).