[Info-vax] What are the earliest DEC operating systems you worked with ?

[John Dallman]

In article <s1t0bg$84l$4 at gioia.aioe.org>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
(Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) wrote:

> Well, back then a company of several thousand employees had one 
> such beast; now all employees have at least one computer.

When the product I work on started development in the mid-eighties, there
were about ten people, sharing a 4MB VAX with Cifer terminals. Only two
people could run the product at the same time, without the VAX swapping
itself into oblivion. 

There were two small flags (the cloth kind, on sticks) and possession of
one allowed you to run the product. They're still in the office, even
though 4MB is less than the processor cache on the slowest platform we
support. 

John