From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:57:56 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] And now ... Weirdnix? In-Reply-To: <8AA943A2-D6C0-4812-9C16-C09D1298754F@tuhs.org> References: <8AA943A2-D6C0-4812-9C16-C09D1298754F@tuhs.org> Message-ID: 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."