From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:14:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140617121419.GD3947@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cea91b5-f4ee-46a3-80b3-899b1ee00d69.maildroid@localhost>
iking at killthewabbit.org scripsit:
> Well, the University of Oregon might disagree with you about the PDP-7.
> They ran the DECsys monitor,
Ah, I didn't know about that. Still, pretty sub-minimal: Fortran II,
assembler, editor, period. It made OS/8 look quite rich by comparison.
> Hardly useless....
However, according to the manual, DECsys required an 8Kword PDP-7, whereas
the "Space Travel" (not "Spacewar!") machine had only 4Kwords.
> And what's wrong with OS/8?
Nothing. Indeed, I cut my teeth on it on a PDP-8/M with 8K and a single
DECtape with the driver in ROM. I was using the term descriptively to
indicate the kind of OS available for the PDP-9. A modified version also
ran on the '15, it seems. But the native OSes were DOS-15 (roughly RT-11)
and RSX-15 (a classic DEC RSX).
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
"Not to know The Smiths is not to know K.X.U." --K.X.U.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-17 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-15 18:19 Norman Wilson
2014-06-16 16:13 ` iking
2014-06-16 22:01 ` Gregg Levine
2014-06-17 1:38 ` John Cowan
2014-06-17 1:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-06-17 3:13 ` iking
2014-06-17 12:14 ` John Cowan [this message]
2014-06-18 16:21 ` Ian King
2014-06-18 11:06 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-18 14:43 ` iking
2014-06-18 14:48 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 18:21 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-18 15:03 Norman Wilson
2014-06-18 14:00 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 16:58 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 15:55 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 15:14 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 16:50 ` scj
2014-06-18 18:43 ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 17:48 Douglas Comer
2014-06-18 22:38 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 21:21 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-18 22:55 ` John Cowan
2014-06-19 1:49 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-20 13:05 Douglas Comer
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