30 Nov
2017
30 Nov
'17
5:12 a.m.
On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
Can't remember; we're talking late 70s / early 80s, and my organic
associative memory ain't the best these days. I was busy running a
network of 11/40s, squeezing as much of V7 into V6 as I could, and talking
the poxy UT-200 protocol for RJE (the original purpose of our 11/40s) with
its broken implementation on the Cyber 72.
Damn; I wish I still had those CSU tapes, but they'd be unreadable by now
(IMHO my "ei.c" driver was a work of art).
You could
start with (an early) Minix, I guess; we ran it on a PDT (I
think) with 2 x RX-05 floppies. Slow, but it worked, sort of.
You mean Xinu, perhaps? Minix was always an 80x86 and 680x0 system. Of course, you could always go retro and try Mini Unix
:)
That rings a bell; we're talking about the early UNSW Unix days (CSU,
AGSM, Basser, Elec Eng, etc).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."