21 Apr
2017
21 Apr
'17
5:28 a.m.
On 20/04/2017 22:59, Larry McVoy wrote:
I suspect that living on a Z-80 with floppies after
the stuff we are used
to would not be pleasant. At least not for me. Fun but frustrating, where
is the network? Where's my SSD? 64K? Really? Retro is cool but not that
retro :)
I've frequently run (and demonstrated at a UK DEC Legacy event) my
PDP-11/23 running 7th Edition from a pair of RL02 hard drives in 256KB.
That's slow enough to be painful, and horrifying to bystanders; I
suspect a Z-80 floppy system would be slightly slower still.
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull