aad@ANDREW.CMU.EDU.UUCP (03/24/87)
You're not alone in loving 11's. I even take it to the point of disliking qbus, and staying unibus. I've got an 11/34 and 2 rl01's and rx01's, and a 2.9.1 BSD tape and no tape drive. It's enough to make you scream. But then I look at the ibm rt, and my faith is reassured. Fly to the sky on GI-GI_____________ and shout to The vt240 is an abomination. I want my PDP. trunc(anthony a datri) Cyert-Mellon University (a subsidary of IBM)
jfh@killer.UUCP (04/02/87)
PDP-11's are great. The first computer I was allowed to physically touch was a PDP-11/45. It had 124K words of CORE memory and a serial number somewhere's down around 1000. My second love was an LSI-11 at U.N.O. Not only could we touch it, but we got to take apart, crash, reboot, etc. All this leads up to why I love 11's. This experience with real hardware warped me into a Hardware-Lover. When given the oppurtunity to get some extra credit installing UNIX on a PDP-11/44 I jumped at it. My instructor (James "Nothead" Thomas) and I wound up having to use RT-11 to read the distribution tape, and on one or more occasions, console ODT, to get the machine to boot UNIX. All this leads up to my one favorite thing - Memory Mapped I/O. The climax of my college career was when I finally learned how to read in a block from a TU-16 and run it. I used this knowelege to impress more than one fellow student. Most of my class mates were into COBOL and BASIC, so there was little competition if you knew ODT and could figure out the device registers... - john. (jfh@killer.UUCP) Bka - "Captain Porko - mad computer science student ..." Personal Note - Clyde, UNIX really is nice, eh?