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

[William Pechter]

In article <cuag4nF57qkU3 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>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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I saw the Softech Ada Language System kill 11/780's including causing system
crashes when you would just run sys$system:shutdown...

This was at the seriously missed Fort Monmouth Hexagon under CENTACS.

Ugh.  It killed two pretty large 11/780's in the VMS 3.x days.
Ugly beastly system.  Of course they were also trying to build the Military
Computer Family to compete with the VAX back in those days.

The NYU Ada and DEC's stuff seemed to be a much better performer.
I guess the Ada Language System overreached.  Were they trying for something
like a UCSD Pascal system with integrated tools?  Never saw anything close up
unless I was working on fixing the system while they ran it.

I saw a lot of mount verifications after reboots -- sometimes twice a week -- 
just when I was on site.

Before ALS the damn boxes just ran.

Bill
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