Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: How to waste computer memory? Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <2sFGy.95858$4l5.93010@fx37.am4> NNTP-Posting-Host: 97-91-88-140.dhcp.roch.mn.charter.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1458395424 19773 97.91.88.140 (19 Mar 2016 13:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:50:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:105269 On 2016-03-18, cl@isbd.net wrote: > However I doubt it's still being used, a year or two after I wrote it > we migrated to a Tektronix development system that ran Unix (wow!). The PDP-11 one that ran TNIX (a thinly disguised port of v7)? Back in the early 80's we used a copule of those doing microprocessor development for cellular phones and cellular base station radios. IIRC, they were 8560s with the 8540 in-circuit-emulator boxes attached to a couple of the high speed serial ports. Compared to the groups that were using Intel MDS development machines running ISIS, we thought we were pretty cool. We even had a 300 baud modem on one port so we could dial-in from home! -- Grant