Dave Gray
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- Joined
- May 22, 2013
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accch, the fun of supporting a group of test equipment running on PDP-8As, 12 bits with 16K words of core memory (later ones had 32K of DRAM, but the core was faster). DEC PDP11-34s for the programming station with 5-10 users using RSX-11M real time OS, running from 10MB disks...
Then Unix on a Z8000 based in-house built system, we had a (gasp) 300MB disk! 85lbs, about 18" high full rack width...
And then came Linux, in the form of SLS (Soft Landing Systems) floppy disks downloaded on Compuserve... And Red Hat was there very early on.
What a journey... (We had IBM mainframes, made plug-compatible equipment, but I never had much to do with that.)
Then Unix on a Z8000 based in-house built system, we had a (gasp) 300MB disk! 85lbs, about 18" high full rack width...
And then came Linux, in the form of SLS (Soft Landing Systems) floppy disks downloaded on Compuserve... And Red Hat was there very early on.
What a journey... (We had IBM mainframes, made plug-compatible equipment, but I never had much to do with that.)