From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] networking on unix before uucp
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:17:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201408260617.s7Q6H71P027911@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140826032654.GD7039@mcvoy.com>
Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > It was quite astounding to see the wide range of performance impacts
> > this had on various systems. 3B* systems would tip over and die, except
> > for the (built by Convergent Tech) 3B1.
>
> Sheesh, you people keep bringing up stuff from my past. My buddy Rob
> Netzer (used to be a prof at Brown, now works on BitKeeper with me)
> had one of those 3B1s. Neat machine. Sort of like a desktop VAX.
I had one too. (Also a trailblazer and then a worldblazer.) The 3B1 ran
SVR2; the BSD networking was available as an add-on with the ethernet
card.
I spent many happy hours working on that box, developing gawk and its
documentation; it was slow enough that you could see algorithmic
differences, e.g. standard diff vs. GNU diff.
It had one of those great AT&T keyboards (as did the blit). The UI
wasn't anything special to write home about though.
For a while there was a separate 3b1.* set of newsgroups and an
archive of stuff at Ohio State; there remains a comp.sys.3b1 group
that still has some activity as new people try to revive some of
these machines and others who had them help out. Someone was writing
an emulator, but I don't think it ever got finished.
Ah, the memories .... :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-26 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-23 3:08 Brian Walden
2014-08-23 18:02 ` Sven Mascheck
2014-08-23 19:32 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-24 4:59 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <53FB4B6D.5070404@e-bbes.com>
2014-08-25 14:45 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-25 15:22 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-25 15:49 ` arnold
2014-08-25 19:01 ` emanuel stiebler
2014-08-25 19:20 ` arnold
2014-08-25 20:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-25 21:06 ` John Cowan
2014-08-25 21:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-25 21:17 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-26 3:26 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-26 6:17 ` arnold [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-26 16:56 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-26 6:44 Jason Stevens
2014-08-22 16:35 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-22 13:27 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-22 13:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-22 13:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-22 3:42 Mark Longridge
2014-08-22 15:09 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-08-22 22:12 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-08-24 22:46 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-24 23:00 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-24 23:07 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-24 23:43 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-25 14:21 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-26 16:36 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2014-08-26 23:20 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-22 15:18 ` Dan Cross
2014-08-22 15:20 ` Dan Cross
2014-08-22 15:57 ` John Cowan
2014-08-22 16:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-22 18:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-22 17:51 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-22 19:24 ` John Cowan
2014-08-22 20:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-22 20:16 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408230659490.42071@aneurin.horsfall.org>
2014-08-23 2:30 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-22 19:32 ` John Cowan
2014-08-22 18:01 ` Dave Horsfall
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