From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 15 19:15:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [209.191.58.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72CCB4B82 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:12:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from bg-tc-ppp757.monmouth.com (root@bg-tc-ppp757.monmouth.com [209.191.59.131]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA09099 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:45:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by bg-tc-ppp757.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA49579 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:48:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <200002160148.UAA49579@bg-tc-ppp757.monmouth.com> Subject: DEC KL10's etc. To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:48:47 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 732-935-0629 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:11:07 -0600 (CST) > From: David Scheidt > Subject: Re: Why I Don't Do Linux > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Ah. TWENEX, the predecessor of TOPS-10 and TOPS-20, succeeded ITS as > > > Only of TOPS-20. TOPS-10 is a different animal. It shipped with source, > > > by the way. > > > > BLISS is ignornace. > > TOPS-10 was written in MACRO-10. Later bits, like some of DECNET -- I > think, were done in BLISS-10 (BLISS-36?). I suspect TOPS-20 was also > MACRO-10. I am almost certain that the BBN folk used MACRO-10, or its > ancestors. > > David, wondering when a 72-bit machine is going to appear. When they figure 64 isn't enough. That should finally get us a DEC 36 bit emulator to go with the 12, 16 and 18 bit ones. (No, running sim2.3 is not the main reason for my FreeBSD box, but it's close) Bill --- bpechter@monmouth.com | Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? | Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? | BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message