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[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 2:10 AM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Also the approximate date of the rt11 emulation being viable on Unix...

Warner

-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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