[rescue] The Soul of that old Machine

[Mike Katz]

I beg to differ.B  Data General was not a "fork" from Digital Equipment 
Corporation but rather started by a group of engineers who were working 
on a 16 bit replacement for the PDP-8 and left DEC and formed Data 
General when the project, code named PDP-X, was cancelled.

To quote wikipedia: "This prompted several of the engineers from the 
PDP-X program to leave DEC and form Data General 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General>. The next year they 
introduced the 16-bit Data General Nova 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova>.^[6] 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11#cite_note-6> The Nova was a major 
success, selling tens of thousands of units and launching what would 
become one of DEC's major competitors through the 1970s and 1980s"

Data general sold nearly 100,000 16 bit computers whereas DEC sold 
nearly 600,000 PDP-11's.


> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 9:26 AM Jonathan Patschke<jp at celestrion.net>  wrote:
>
>> What are good resources to get started in emulating an Eclipse or Eclipse
>> MV?
> simh can simulate the Nova and Eclipse although I have personally never
> tried.
>
>
>>    What were the typical operating systems like?
> Pretty standard for the day.   If you were used to DOS-8, TSS-8, TOPS-10,
> VMS or like; you can learn any of them. A lot of the same people involved
> in both systems.  Remember, DG was originally a fork from DEC.
>
>
>
>> Are there reasonably accessible setups
>>
> I believe bit savers has a number of the docs and binaries.  Internet
> search is your friend. If you don't find a step-by-step, take notes and
> create one like the one that exist for Unix on the PDP-11 and the like.
>
> Have fun.
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