Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:01:09 +0300 From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.net> To: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Tom Jackson <tom@geotec.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have PDP Message-ID: <19990304200109.A66877@demos.su> In-Reply-To: <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>; from Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:26:24AM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903040747030.29440-100000@feral-gw> <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>
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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 <mjacob@feral.com> 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
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