[TUHS] Favorite unix design principles?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sun Jan 31 07:42:56 AEST 2021
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, Clem Cole wrote:
> Look I grew up with a 256K byte RAM Unix V6 system on an 11/34, 3 RK05s
> and an RK07 for storage. We swapped. Yeah, I never ran a window
> manager, but he had a number of 9600K terminals on DH11's and we were
> happy. You could see it swapping like mad, but that system never
> crashed. It just ran and ran and ran.
You had *three* RK05s, an RK07, *and* a DH11? We had just two, and a
crappy DJ-11 on our /40s. Pretty much stable; any bugs were fixed on the
spot because we had the source code after all.
(They were configured that way to run RSX-11D, then that issue of the BSTJ
appeared; the rest is history.)
-- Dave
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