From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 4 9: 2: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from skraldespand.demos.su (skraldespand.demos.su [194.87.5.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52AD815083 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mishania@skraldespand.demos.su) Received: (from mishania@localhost) by skraldespand.demos.su (8.9.3/8.9.2) id UAA67102; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:01:10 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from mishania) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:01:09 +0300 From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" To: Cory Kempf Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Tom Jackson , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have PDP Message-ID: <19990304200109.A66877@demos.su> References: <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>; from Cory Kempf on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:26:24AM -0500 X-Useless-Header: Look ma! It's a # sign! X-Point-of-View: Gravity is myth, - the earth sucks. Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:26:24AM -0500, Cory Kempf wrote: # > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tom Jackson wrote: # > > I picked up a PDP 11/83 at a American Airlines garage sale. It has # > > the tape backup (and 2 boxes of tapes) but is missing the hard drives. # > > Is there any hope/use or have I acquired a big boat anchor? # Matthew Jacob writes: # > It's a boat anchor for running a full fledged Unix system, # # It "full fledged" refers specifically to uni with all the modern # gew-gaws and gizmos, sure. # # While it has been a long time, I could swear that not only was unix # *invented* on a PDP system (PDP8, if I recall), 2.9 BSD was written # for the PDP 11... Demos.SU's name is taken from DEMOS OS, which is 2.9-like BSD. I can look for archives for you, if you insist. -- -mishania To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message