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From: mbg@world.std.com (Megan)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
Message-ID: <D611o6.Ao8@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <D5yxwn.5BG@sdf.saomai.org> <3l2b46$ro0@tools.near.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 03:00:05 GMT
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barmar@nic.near.net (Barry Margolin) writes:

>In article <D5yxwn.5BG@sdf.saomai.org> esl@sdf.saomai.org (Eric S. Lamemond) writes:
>>The Symbolics 3600
>>series were so inferior to machines such as the VAX that they needed what
>>was called a FEP (AMI bios in Pentium UNIX) to boot them!

>The VAX 8000 series needed an 8086 PC front-end to boot them!

And the Vax 6800 had a PDP-11 (T-11) running a conditional assembly
of RT-11 as the front end to not only load the microcode but also to
sequence the power controllers ...

which prompted the expression:

"RT-11 turns Venus on"...

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

