From: Berry Kercheval kerch@parc.xerox.com
Subject: The future of Plan9?
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 09:04:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970501160441.HYB4cQHJm6iZQjVOxYQWEw1YM4TtTLrGK0jAbLCPJDY@z> (raw)
>>>bwong@arf.cisco.com said:
> That is true. When I worked at Bell Labs in 1985, they were leasing
> lots of hp2621 terminals. There was an hp2621 emulator for the Blit
> and I expect the Plan9 version to be a descendant.
In the early 80's the hp2621 was one of the best ASCII terminals you could
get. No, one of the best *terminals*, there wasn't much else! The -P model
even had a built-in thermal printer.
My company (not Xerox, then) bought about 20 of them to go with our spankin'
new hot-stuff PDP-11/70 with PWB 1.0.
Sigh. The Sparc-10 on my desk has 96 Mbytes and that 11/70 had just 4, yet it
could support 30-40 users and I can drive the SParc-10 into thrashing all by
myself.
--berry "and we had to chisel the ones out of stone, too, and we *liked* it..."
Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Cent
er
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