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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: [pups] DEC PRO or P/OS
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:50:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031117215021.GA18097@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031117210533.GA33626@freebie.xs4all.nl>

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:05:33PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> A Pro350 was an F11, a Pro380 a T11 (I hope I remember this correctly)
> CPU. I think you could also run RT-11 on them. Some big VAX models
> had Pro's as console processors/systems. RD5x disk drives on the Pro's.
> And special I/O cards which only fit in Pros.
> 

  Yeah, that's my memory as well.  Rick Macklem did a port of 2.9BSD to them.
I used one for a time; it took something like thirty seconds to load vi!

-- 
David Evans                                         dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer/Synth Junkie     http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo         "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada           overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual


  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-17 20:23 Gregg C Levine
2003-11-17 21:05 ` Wilko Bulte
2003-11-17 21:50   ` David Evans [this message]
2003-11-17 22:19     ` Wilko Bulte
2003-11-17 22:20       ` David Evans
2003-11-18  1:55       ` Gregg C Levine
2003-11-18 10:37         ` Johnny Billquist
2003-11-17 22:18   ` Johnny Billquist
2003-11-17 22:12 ` Johnny Billquist
2003-11-17 22:21   ` Gregg C Levine
2003-11-17 22:17 John Holden
2003-11-17 22:18 Fred N. van Kempen
2003-11-18  2:08 Fred N. van Kempen
2003-11-18  3:03 ` David Evans
2004-01-31 19:17 Tarik Isani

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