10 Nov
2017
10 Nov
'17
8:18 p.m.
On 11/10/17 1:06 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:00:15PM -0600, Will Senn wrote:
This almost exactly mirrors my experience, except we moved off the VAX
before the 8600. (And I did my PDP-11 assembly programming on the DEC
PRO-350, DEC's PDP-11-based "personal computer.")
I came from TOPS-20, and I agree that the hardest part was learning the
command names and different behaviors. I read the manuals, a couple of
books (including, ironically as it turned out, Steve Bourne's), a bunch
of various source code, and a lot of unix-wizards discussions.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
My question for you citizens of that long-ago era
:), is this - what was it
like to sit down and learn unix V7 on a PDP? Not from a hardware or
ergonomics perspective, but from a human information processing perspective.
What resources did you consult in your early days and what did the workflow
look like in practical terms.
I learned on the VAX, did some PDP-11 assembly but I dunno if I ever
ran on one. Definitely spent a lot of time on 11/750, 11/780 and the 8600.