[Info-vax] OSes

[Bill Cunningham]

"Rich Alderson" <news at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote in message 
news:mddwprdkulr.fsf at panix5.panix.com...

> No.
>
> All operating systems are complex.  On hardware of the era in which you 
> are
> interested, that complexity was reflected in the user interface and in the
> programming model.
>
> You seem to be confusing 4 DEC architectures (PDP-11 = 16 bits, PDP-8 = 12
> bits, PDP-10 = 36 bits, and VAX = 32 bits) and possibly also a 36-bit IBM
> architecture (CTSS ran on the IBM 7094, not a DEC product).
>
> I suspect that you want to stick to your C64.

    Hum....I can't get that C64 VIC20 or other CBM machine emulator to work 
for some reason. And all I am aware CBM used as an OS was CP/M.

    I never really considered as you say the processing power of the 
machine. I was only comparing software differences. And OS languages.