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

From	scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Subject	Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's 41 Floppies Worth
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Date	2025-07-22 21:08 +0000

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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.

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        Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-19 07:14 +0000
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          Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-21 09:32 -0700
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                Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-21 23:06 +0000
                Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-07-22 14:46 +0000
            Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-07-21 16:07 -0400
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                Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-07-22 21:08 +0000
                Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-07-22 22:29 +0000
                Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-07-23 18:48 +0000
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  Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2025-07-19 11:41 +0100

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