[Info-vax] OT: obscure PDP11 OSes (even more dinosaury)

Bill Gunshannon bill at server3.cs.uofs.edu
Tue Jun 16 07:37:59 EDT 2015


In article <712a4c8d-d2bb-4db0-8b1a-29baf5c5421c at googlegroups.com>,
	Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> Run for cover!
> IIRC the 11/70 outperformed the 11/780 at some sites (time sharing systems). 

With the 11/780 being the first VAX running VMS I used, I would agree.
It was a dog.  And we won't even go into what happened to performance
when some Lieutenant decided to compile something in Ada.  Was a good
time to go to lunch, or in most cases just go home for the day.

bill

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