PDP 11/73 on the Internet

[Pete Turnbull]

On 04/06/2009 15:26, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> Living with the 16-bitness of the processor?  4BSD on a VAX was at one
> point, "the pinnacle" of the UNIX experience ("All the world's a
> VAX").  Massive address space, no need for overlays, etc.  2BSD is
> more representative of what people went through before 1978, with
> enough similarity to a modern environment that you can dabble without
> getting lost (older UNIX is missing lots of stuff that most of us take
> for granted anymore).

On a couple of occasions I've taken a PDP-11/23plus with dual RL02s into 
Computer Science for Open Days, to show it running 7th Edition.  Always 
used to get a lot of interest, exactly because there's enough similarity 
that people can find their way around, but enough things missing that 
they notice (one of those things is speed, of course!).

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York