27 May
2009
27 May
'09
10:36 a.m.
Hello!
Corey where are you based? I'd just love to spend at least an hour or two
studying one of those old fellows. I actually investigated the weirdness
behind yet another somewhat old fashioned OS on one of those old fellow's
relatives. (An OS I am not going to mention unless someone wants to ask me
off-list.)
--
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
-----Original Message-----
From: tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org]
On Behalf
Of Corey Lindsly
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:07 PM
To: Larry McVoy
Cc: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SYSV & TCP/IP on the VAX...
[..]
The 3b2's were ok. I liked the ATT Unix PC,
3b1 (?). My roomate and
I in college both bought those and did a lot of hacking on them.
Yup. I used an AT&T 3b1/7300 all through college.
No ethernet. Polled for mail using dialup/UUCP.
I still have a couple 3b1 machines stored in the
garage...strange to think that the L2 caches on
the Xeon 5410 CPUs in my web server are larger than
the entire hard drive in my old UNIXpc. Shouldn't
computers be doing a whole lot more by now?
Maybe of mild interest to some, here is a scan of a
page from an old Byte article with benchmark data
comparing the 3b1 to some of its peers at the time
(TRS-80, VAX11/780, PC XT). Apologies for the quality
of the image. Some day I'll dig out the originals and
re-scan everything..
http://www.unixpc.org/bench1.gif
---corey
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