From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: phil@ultimate.com, jpl.jpl@gmail.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Reaction to the 3B2 at Bell Labs
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:29:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202211271529.2ARFTlef022914@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp_ZGzd5gE+yNSsitSO3RgSi42KGhYXRVrhj2TWzTLVo0A@mail.gmail.com>
Many schools were similarly gifted; I had them both at Georgia Tech and
at Emory. They didn't see a lot of real use. The one more-or-less cool
thing they had was a soft power switch; pushing it started an orderly Unix
shutdown (usually). Once in a while one had to yank the cord from the
wall to shut it down.
Arnold
"John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> wrote:
> We were "gifted" a 3B2, as in "take this and use it!". I ran a "ps" command
> in single user mode, and it took 20 seconds to run.
> Our machine names were themed around bird names, so we christened the 3B2
> "junco". Our director said we had to get along,
> so we renamed it "jay". But everyone knew what the J stood for. The 3B2
> served as a doorstop.
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 11:44 PM Phil Budne <phil@ultimate.com> wrote:
>
> > Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > I read the Wikipedia page on the 9000. It's sad that the 9000
> > > wasn't cancelled when they had better alternatives.
> >
> > In an oral history Bob Supnik described Ken Olsen couldn't get his
> > head around the fact that the NVAX chip could equal the 9000:
> >
> > @2:59:45 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tcCBHRIfU
> >
> > In part 2, Bob described how then DEC VP Gordon Bell having earlier
> > predicted when the microprocessor performance curve would cross over
> > minis and mainframes:
> >
> > @1:51:45 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tcCBHRIfU
> >
> > He also talks about how the company couldn't command the bsame gross
> > margins as it did in the VAX era.
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-27 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-26 18:46 [TUHS] " Seth Morabito
2022-11-26 19:18 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 20:04 ` Seth Morabito
2022-11-26 20:42 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-26 21:46 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-26 23:00 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-26 23:23 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 23:47 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-27 0:17 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-27 4:43 ` Phil Budne
2022-11-27 14:51 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-27 15:29 ` arnold [this message]
2022-11-27 16:11 ` Ron Natalie
2022-11-27 16:59 ` Warner Losh
2022-11-27 18:59 ` arnold
2022-11-27 20:45 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-28 18:53 ` William Corcoran
2022-11-28 20:59 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-11-28 22:33 ` ron minnich
2022-11-28 22:43 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-29 1:49 ` Alan Glasser
2022-12-01 6:10 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-12-01 8:30 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-01 8:53 ` arnold
2022-12-01 9:19 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2022-12-01 12:25 ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-01 10:00 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-01 10:17 ` arnold
2022-11-27 14:53 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 19:21 ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-11-29 11:33 ` alan
2022-11-30 2:50 ` Mary Ann Horton
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