[rescue] Rescue a PDP

[Dave McGuire]

On July 17, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   Cool machine!  The 11/73 is a zippy J11-based Qbus PDP11 with 22-bit
> > addressing.
> 
> So, it takes up to 4 megs of ram?  Shouldn't that be enough for a
> decent unix install?

  My PDP11/34 had Unix on it when I first got it...it had 256KB (the
most an 11/34 can have with its 18-bit addressing).

  But yes, 4MB is quite enough for a more recent 2BSD installation.  I
think the DEC OSs (RSTS/E in particular) get much more out of the
hardware, though.

     -Dave

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