From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:19:03 +0100
Subject: [pups] DEC PRO or P/OS
In-Reply-To: <20031117215021.GA18097@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca>
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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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