[TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks.

[Rob Pike]

The PDP-11/40 in the University of Toronto's Computer Research Facility
(CRF) had a GT-40, and the lead EE prof there loved the screen editor RT-11
provided for it. I never used it, but I was intrigued. (I did land the LM a
few times, though. More than a few.)

Across the raised floor aisle was the PDP-11/45, which ran Unix from 5PM to
8AM if I remember right, RT-11 the rest of the time, until some date around
1976 or 1977 (?), when Unix became an unstoppable force for innovation.

-rob


On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 4:35 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> Dave Horsfall wrote:
> >> I have fond memories of playing it on the GT-40, and if Andrew Hume
> >> is reading this he'll remember reverse-engineering the code and
> >> modifying it for three-play operation; I think Peter Ivanov also
> >> implemented reverse gravity...
> > Oops; reverse gravity (for the Sun) was implemented for Space Wars (or
> > whatever it was called; this was ~40 years ago, so don't expect my
> memory
> > to be the best).
>
> I wonder how many GT40 Spacewar implementations there were?
> I have seen two: one from MIT, the other from Stanford.
>
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