From: pete@dunnington.plus.com (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: [TUHS] Zilog Z80 Unix
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:28:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a54d4eb-f202-8543-5971-d5d147801633@dunnington.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170420215955.GJ3285@mcvoy.com>
On 20/04/2017 22:59, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I suspect that living on a Z-80 with floppies after the stuff we are used
> to would not be pleasant. At least not for me. Fun but frustrating, where
> is the network? Where's my SSD? 64K? Really? Retro is cool but not that
> retro :)
I've frequently run (and demonstrated at a UK DEC Legacy event) my
PDP-11/23 running 7th Edition from a pair of RL02 hard drives in 256KB.
That's slow enough to be painful, and horrifying to bystanders; I
suspect a Z-80 floppy system would be slightly slower still.
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-20 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-20 1:42 Erik E. Fair
2017-04-20 2:54 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-20 3:09 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-20 3:40 ` Gregg Levine
2017-04-20 4:34 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-20 4:50 ` Warner Losh
2017-04-20 7:03 ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20 7:32 ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20 4:32 ` Rik Schneider
2017-04-20 13:05 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-22 21:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-22 23:59 ` Clem cole
2017-04-23 0:01 ` Clem cole
2017-04-23 0:13 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-24 0:04 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-24 0:40 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-23 5:14 ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-23 5:14 ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20 21:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-20 21:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-20 22:33 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-04-20 23:28 ` Pete Turnbull [this message]
2017-04-20 23:19 ` Harald Arnesen
2017-04-21 0:03 ` Andy Kosela
2017-04-23 17:58 ` Michael Welle
2017-04-20 12:34 Noel Chiappa
2017-04-20 13:41 ` Mutiny
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