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From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Subject: [TUHS] Control-T (was top)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 15:48:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wr2m13vhy.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OtUMSq85MtopyAouh6yrRjRwSG+fVW4Pb1mP2jnEMvuQ@mail.gmail.com> (Clem Cole's message of "Thu, 24 May 2018 08:01:14 -0700")

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Clem Cole wrote:
> Stanford had a DEC System-20 called 'LOTS' which they bought for the
> undergrads for teaching.​ Somebody (who will be left nameless) modified
> the OS so the 'running' part changed depending on value of the load
> average. i.e.  running, jogging, walking, crawling.

Another PDP-10 operating system (from MIT) had this:
Warp (fastest), zoom, fly, run, walk, tenex, multix (slowest).


  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-24 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24 12:20 [TUHS] History of top Noel Chiappa
2018-05-24 14:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 14:43   ` Ronald Natalie
2018-05-24 14:50   ` [TUHS] Control-T (was top) Ronald Natalie
2018-05-24 15:01     ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 15:48       ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2018-05-24 15:08     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-28 22:32       ` Paul Winalski
2018-05-28 23:11         ` Clem cole
2018-05-28 23:32           ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29  1:12         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-28 10:31 ` [TUHS] History of top Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-29  2:55 [TUHS] Control-T (was top) Noel Chiappa
2018-05-29 17:10 ` Paul Winalski
2018-05-29 18:49 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-30  1:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-29 21:21 Norman Wilson
2018-05-30  9:06 ` arnold
     [not found] <mailman.1.1527559201.18622.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-05-29 22:45 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-05-30  0:19   ` Clem cole
2018-05-30  0:20     ` Clem cole
2018-05-30 22:10     ` Johnny Billquist
2018-05-30 23:14       ` Pete Turnbull
2018-05-30  1:10   ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found] <mailman.1.1527732002.17884.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-05-31 15:02 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-05-31 21:42   ` Nemo

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