25 Jan
2023
25 Jan
'23
9:23 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 03:04:27PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
The RT was a weird duck, for sure. Compared to a
SPARCstation it was
absurdly slow, but I guess compared to a uVAX perhaps not so much.
I think the RT predated the SPARC machines. There were RT's running BSD
at UW-Madison when I was a grad student there (UW did something, maybe
the BSD port to RT?) and they were pretty nice. Sun machines were still
68K, there were no SPARCs at UW-Madison at that time. Yeah, looked it
up, they were released in 1987, we had RT machines early, perhaps before
the release in 1986 to do the port.
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