[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Wed Apr 1 16:57:36 EDT 2009


In article <72pgbbFrckbiU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> U*mmmm....  No, not really.  Active development (well, at least as active as
> VMS seems to be) for three of the PDP-11 OSes just ended last year.  So, if
> you take when they first started and compare that to when VMS first started
> VMS will need a few more real good years to match them.

   Hm.  Although possibly not as important as the Berkley port to VAXen,
   I seem to recall the development of UNIX including a port to PDP-11
   early on.

   Sadly, I think continued development of that '60s technology will
   continue for a bit longer.




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