From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] And now ... Weirdnix?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:57:56 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709190947410.89458@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8AA943A2-D6C0-4812-9C16-C09D1298754F@tuhs.org>
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
> And now, we bring the RMS/Gnu thread to a close :-)
But it was fun while it lasted :-) I learned a bit.
> To kick a more relevant thread off, what was the "weirdest" Unix system
> you used & why? Could be an emulation like Eunice, could be the hardware
> e.g NULL was not zero, NUXI byte ordering etc.
Eunice for certain. Never seen NULL != 0, but didn't the Interdata boxes
have the NUXI problem?
And one of the UNSW departments had this 11/34 clone, where the two disk
packs (one removable) had a common spindle... I think that was also the
box where the clock had to be enabled/disabled by a front-panel switch, so
you disabled it, booted Unix, then hopefully remembered to enable it.
Oh, and if it extends to organic-ware, the UNSW Library's 11/40 had no
password on "root", but had one on "oper"...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-18 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-17 7:03 Warren Toomey
2017-09-17 7:28 ` arnold
2017-09-17 8:10 ` David Arnold
2017-09-17 12:52 ` Adam Sampson
2017-09-17 14:23 ` Steve Simon
2017-09-17 18:50 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-17 19:01 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2017-09-18 12:02 ` arnold
2017-09-17 14:49 ` Dennis Boone
2017-09-18 7:27 ` Nigel Williams
2017-09-18 8:31 ` arnold
2017-09-18 10:39 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-18 11:59 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-09-19 1:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-19 7:07 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-19 14:09 ` [TUHS] PR1ME - was " Toby Thain
2017-09-17 15:08 ` [TUHS] " Nemo
2017-09-18 23:57 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-10-04 5:58 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-10-04 16:15 ` George Michaelson
[not found] <mailman.1035.1505674910.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-09-18 11:41 ` [TUHS] " David
2017-09-18 13:15 ` Chet Ramey
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