30 Aug
2018
30 Aug
'18
9:03 a.m.
Hello!
I remember meeting the RT family of machines during the UNIXEXPO cycle
of events. Also what DEC was up to. It was both the IBM 6151 RT
machines and finally the odd looking design that they turned into. I
still have the mouse pad they gave me of a certain Viking working to
promote them.
I recall that the sales droid at the collection of RT machines was
rather vexed that I simply used the telnet command to walk my way
across the whole series.
I also recall that I was more impressed by the DEC crowd, and was
amused by the SUN efforts. You're right as usual Larry, they were
working too <DELETED> hard to promote themselves.
Kevin I've seen your site before, it is as informative as usual.
As for running AIX in a virtual machine, perhaps I will contact you
off list to discuss that idea, Kevin.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Eric Wayte <ewayte(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:28 PM Arno Griffioen <arno.griffioen(a)ieee.org>
wrote:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:41:02AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
I remember IBM brought a semi-trailer to my university (UCF) showcasing the
RT back in the 80s.
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Eric Wayte I'm curious who was using AOS, which was
essentially Tahoe+NFS.
Used it for several years, but on IBM 6151 RT machines and not RS/6000's.
The ROMP CPU in the RT's was a bit of an oddball, but fun to play with
using an assembler :)
Like many IBM's from the era they had fantastic keyboards though!
Bye, Arno.