From: wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: [pups] DEC PRO or P/OS
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:19:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031117221903.GB34201@freebie.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031117215021.GA18097@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca>
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:50:21PM -0500, David Evans wrote:
> 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!
The 380 was pretty much OK in my recollection. 350 was downright slow.
RD5x drives did not help here..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 22:19 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
2003-11-17 22:19 ` Wilko Bulte [this message]
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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