On Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 2:10 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
The PDP-11/40 in the University of Toronto's Computer Research Facility (CRF) had a GT-40, and the lead EE prof there loved the screen editor RT-11 provided for it. I never used it, but I was intrigued. (I did land the LM a few times, though. More than a few.)

Across the raised floor aisle was the PDP-11/45, which ran Unix from 5PM to 8AM if I remember right, RT-11 the rest of the time, until some date around 1976 or 1977 (?), when Unix became an unstoppable force for innovation.

Also the approximate date of the rt11 emulation being viable on Unix...

Warner

-rob


On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 4:35 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:
Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> I have fond memories of playing it on the GT-40, and if Andrew Hume
>> is reading this he'll remember reverse-engineering the code and
>> modifying it for three-play operation; I think Peter Ivanov also
>> implemented reverse gravity...
> Oops; reverse gravity (for the Sun) was implemented for Space Wars (or
> whatever it was called; this was ~40 years ago, so don't expect my memory
> to be the best).

I wonder how many GT40 Spacewar implementations there were?
I have seen two: one from MIT, the other from Stanford.