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

Dennis Boone drb at ihatespam.msu.edu
Tue Jun 16 12:55:22 EDT 2015


 > 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.

The 780 wasn't _that_ bad.  I worked on one that tended to have 60+
interactive users, and two or three batch compiles, all going at the
same time.  It was certainly slow at that point, but that's a hell
of a workload for a 1MIP machine.

De



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