28 Jun
2020
28 Jun
'20
10:39 p.m.
Anybody on the list know much about the provenance of SVr4 and OKIX for the
Okistation 7300 model 30?
http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/work/0029.html indicates that OKIX
came later on the model 75, but many years ago as a staff programmer at
Oregon Graduate Institute, a surplus 7300/30 followed me home, but the
sysadmins referred to it as OKIX.
if anybody's interested in the hardware to do some spelunking, email me
off-list.
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Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier(a)poofygoof.com
"The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It
is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." -- Tony Hoare
28 Jun
28 Jun
11:41 p.m.
Huh, that's a trip down memory lane. I didn't have that one but the first
PC I ever owned was a CP/M machine made by the same company. Marketed in
this country under the BMC name but it was made by Oki.
2nd one down here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/miscpm/index.htm
I took out a $2000 loan and bought it in 1984 or 1985 because the
alternative was a VAX 11/780 that had about 30-40 people trying to
compile their projects at the same time. I believe it had 4M of
ram, definitely not enough for the load.
You'd think a 64K z80 with floppies would be a down grade, it was not,
the performance was predictable, I didn't get swapped out for minutes,
it was always working just for me.
I wrote a _ton_ of code on that machine.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 03:39:55PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
Anybody on the list know much about the provenance of
SVr4 and OKIX for the
Okistation 7300 model 30?
http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/work/0029.html indicates that OKIX
came later on the model 75, but many years ago as a staff programmer at
Oregon Graduate Institute, a surplus 7300/30 followed me home, but the
sysadmins referred to it as OKIX.
if anybody's interested in the hardware to do some spelunking, email me
off-list.
--
Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier(a)poofygoof.com
"The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It
is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." -- Tony Hoare
--
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
29 Jun
29 Jun
12:35 a.m.
On 28/06/2020, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Huh, that's a trip down memory lane. I
didn't have that one but the first
PC I ever owned was a CP/M machine made by the same company. Marketed in
this country under the BMC name but it was made by Oki.
2nd one down here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/miscpm/index.htm
I took out a $2000 loan and bought it in 1984 or 1985 because the
alternative was a VAX 11/780 that had about 30-40 people trying to
compile their projects at the same time. I believe it had 4M of
ram, definitely not enough for the load.
You'd think a 64K z80 with floppies would be a down grade, it was not,
the performance was predictable, I didn't get swapped out for minutes,
it was always working just for me.
I wrote a _ton_ of code on that machine.
What did you write, I mean, what were your development tools?
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