Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's 41 Floppies Worth

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Subject	Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's 41 Floppies Worth
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:08:57 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> writes:
>>On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:44:22 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> writes:
>>>>On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:32:37 -0700, John Ames wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:14:12 -0000 (UTC)
>>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> > For sure it's a really limited Unix port since the target HW is
>>>>>> > the original PC or PC/XT.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Which is still way more powerful than an early-1970s-vintage
>>>>>> PDP-11,
>>>>>> which is what Bell Labs Unix was originally developed on, and for.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hmm, that's an interesting question, actually - the Bell Labs -11
>>>>> was an 11/45, which was much faster than the original -11s,
>>>>
>>>>Our was acceptable on an 11/40. That was vanilla Sixth Edition.
>>> 
>>> We ran the sixth edition on an 11/34.    Also had the unix v32 version
>>> on the 11/780 by 1980.
>>
>>I think our 780 got V32 in summer 1979. But it wasn't long before we
>>moved to 4.0BSD.
> 
> In our case, we had to take one of the 11/780s (we had four, plus the
> MA780 shared memory box with 4MB DRAM) out of production in the
> late-night/early-morning hours to play with V32.   V32 was a bit of a
> dog since V32 didn't have paging support.

It was indeed. We'd had UNIX since July 1975 (50 years ago this month!)

The 780 was delivered to run UNIX, and only had VMS installed to check the 
hardware. It was later supplemented by a 750.

We had countless UNIX systems over the years, from different manufacturers 
(Sun, for quite a while). I run eight FreeBSD systems here at home.



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