From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 20815 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2020 23:42:03 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 28 Jun 2020 23:42:03 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B347D9C5E9; Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:41:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9862E9C5E1; Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:41:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 23AD69C5E1; Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:41:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3AD09C190 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:41:01 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 9C39D35E136; Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:41:01 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: "Aaron J. Grier" , tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Message-ID: <20200628234101.GU1324@mcvoy.com> References: <20200628223955.GH170@ra.poofy.goof.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200628223955.GH170@ra.poofy.goof.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Okistations and OKIX? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Huh, that's a trip down memory lane. I didn't have that one but the first PC I ever owned was a CP/M machine made by the same company. Marketed in this country under the BMC name but it was made by Oki. 2nd one down here: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/miscpm/index.htm I took out a $2000 loan and bought it in 1984 or 1985 because the alternative was a VAX 11/780 that had about 30-40 people trying to compile their projects at the same time. I believe it had 4M of ram, definitely not enough for the load. You'd think a 64K z80 with floppies would be a down grade, it was not, the performance was predictable, I didn't get swapped out for minutes, it was always working just for me. I wrote a _ton_ of code on that machine. On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 03:39:55PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote: > Anybody on the list know much about the provenance of SVr4 and OKIX for the > Okistation 7300 model 30? > > http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/work/0029.html indicates that OKIX > came later on the model 75, but many years ago as a staff programmer at > Oregon Graduate Institute, a surplus 7300/30 followed me home, but the > sysadmins referred to it as OKIX. > > if anybody's interested in the hardware to do some spelunking, email me > off-list. > > -- > Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com > "The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It > is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." -- Tony Hoare -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm