9 Apr
2022
9 Apr
'22
2:07 p.m.
The PDP-11/40 in the University of Toronto's Computer Research Facility
(CRF) had a GT-40, and the lead EE prof there loved the screen editor RT-11
provided for it. I never used it, but I was intrigued. (I did land the LM a
few times, though. More than a few.)
Across the raised floor aisle was the PDP-11/45, which ran Unix from 5PM to
8AM if I remember right, RT-11 the rest of the time, until some date around
1976 or 1977 (?), when Unix became an unstoppable force for innovation.
-rob
On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 4:35 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Dave Horsfall wrote:
memory
I have
fond memories of playing it on the GT-40, and if Andrew Hume
is reading this he'll remember reverse-engineering the code and
modifying it for three-play operation; I think Peter Ivanov also
implemented reverse gravity...
Oops; reverse gravity (for the Sun) was implemented
for Space Wars (or
whatever it was called; this was ~40 years ago, so don't expect my to be the best).
I wonder how many GT40 Spacewar implementations there were?
I have seen two: one from MIT, the other from Stanford.