[pups] DEC PRO or P/OS

David Evans dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Nov 18 07:50:21 AEST 2003


On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:05:33PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> A Pro350 was an F11, a Pro380 a T11 (I hope I remember this correctly)
> CPU. I think you could also run RT-11 on them. Some big VAX models
> had Pro's as console processors/systems. RD5x disk drives on the Pro's.
> And special I/O cards which only fit in Pros.
> 

  Yeah, that's my memory as well.  Rick Macklem did a port of 2.9BSD to them.
I used one for a time; it took something like thirty seconds to load vi!

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David Evans                                         dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
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