[rescue] ss2 under load

[Julius Sridhar]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> > no, not really -- I went from a Sol-20 (S-100 chassis with 8080A CPU and
> > 56KB of STATIC RAM and a pair of NorthStar floppy drives) running
> > NorthStar BASIC and then NorthStar's port of the UCSD p-System Pascal to
> > a PDP-11/60 running V7 and then a VAX-11/780 running 32/V (and later
> > 4.1BSD).  Both of the latter were so drastic a jump in capability and
> > capacity that even when I was the only person in the terminal room late
> > at night I was still unable to fully appreciate what I could do with
> > such hardware.
>
> ahhh, see i'm a little bit younger it would seem.  i started on VAX and
> mainframes and went on from there.  i used PDP-11 machines a lot, but more
> because i wanted to than needed to.  but then i still use PDP-11 machines
> because i want to, the only difference is that they are in my house now. :)

That doesn't always necessarily mean something.  I'm even younger than
you, and I started with PDP-11's.

Peace...  Sridhar