From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 507fa56a for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 02:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A0734A1A58; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 12:22:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8F3A19FC; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 12:22:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6E8E1A19FC; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 12:22:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8433F9B5D7 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 12:22:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 0310635E0B8; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:22:10 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Jon Forrest Message-ID: <20180826022210.GF4893@mcvoy.com> References: <1535123616.1824656.1485063544.08BED1A8@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180824164646.GH25694@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:54:41AM -0700, Jon Forrest wrote: > On 8/24/2018 9:46 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: > >People remember the alpha with a lot of revisionist history, talking > >about fast it was. I was actually measuring performance of all the > >CPUs at that time and the Alpha I had wasn't anything to write home > >about. > > When the alpha first came out there were 3 implementations, soon > followed by more. I wonder which one you measured. 2106A 275Mhz > (You probably don't remember this but you once came to my office > at UCB to talk to my officemate Carl Staelin back when I had > one of the first alphas to be released by DEC.) I don't remember a lot of stuff, I'm old. Old enough to get the joke that when you are 25 and you open the fridge and ask "what am I doing here?" it is existential question. When you are my age and you open the fridge and ask the same question it's because you forgot what you wanted. That said, I do have some memory of going somewhere, but UCB? I thought Carl was at HP Labs? But I do remember going somewhere. And all these years later Carl and I are still close friends. It is a small world. --lm