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

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org
Tue Jun 16 16:18:36 EDT 2015


In article <cuag4nF57qkU3 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server3.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> 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.

   When Ada was new, 11/780 were getting long in the tooth.  We'd
   probably just get the fellow his own MV II and let him deal with it.




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