[rescue] The Soul of that old Machine

[Jonathan Patschke]

I finally[0] read Tracy Kidder's _The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine_ last week,
after it being on my list for at least a decade.  Lamentably, I think
the suits learned far more from the book than the nerds did.  At over 45
years hence, heroics and unpaid overtime are the norm around
"deliverables."

That aside, I've never used _any_ Data General machine.  Growing up
rural, microcomputers were about as fancy as anyone got who wasn't doing
accounting by paper.  DECs, DGs, Suns, and Symbolics were mythical
beasts I first heard of in the Jargon File.

What are good resources to get started in emulating an Eclipse or
Eclipse MV?  What were the typical operating systems like?  Are there
reasonably accessible setups like the MVS Tur(n)key kit?  I see the RDOS
kits on the SIMH page, but is there anything for AOS?


[0] Much as so-called "smart" phones may be a net loss for society, the
     opportunity to check out library books and read them while otherwise
     idle is a glimmer of redemption that I really appreciate.
-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA