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From: vsocci@netcom.com (Vance Socci)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
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esl@sdf.saomai.org (Eric S. Lamemond) wrote:

["modest" introduction and warped third-hand history deleted]

>The Decsystem20 was also another resource hog.  If you ran one today, you'd
>be looking at spending $1500 a month in just power and cooling.  The brains
>of the Decsystem20 was TOPS-20 Monitor (OS in UNIX).  The monitor was nothing
>but a glorified program loader (VP/IX in UNIX). PDP-10 programmers are often
>called hackers because nothing worked on the Decsystem20 and always had to
>be "hacked" to work.  Some of the tools of the day were TECO (VI in UNIX)
>and DDT.  Fortunately these days no one needs to use a debugger.  In the
>superior operating systems (such as SunOS, ULTRIX, AIX and LINUX) the system
>does what is called a PANIC .. the machine then just needs to be rebooted
>therefore debugging is not necessary.
>

Thanks anyway for the troll, the Sun/Unix propaganda, and its warped view of computer history.
Its interesting to those of us that have actually been there to see how distorted some people's view
the past actually is.

Remember: don't ever look directly at the Sun: it will AIX out your eyes.







- Vance

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