VAX collectors attention

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyn.ml.org>
Date: Tue Dec 1 06:58:25 1998

> < > (Oh and an HSC50 whatever the heck that is!)
> <
> < Hierarchical Storage Controller.
> < Waist high filing cabinet sized box, HEAVY too.
> < Basically, it's a PDP8 I think, running a little o/s called CRONIC
>
> PDP11, used the T-11 chip. NOT PDP-8.
>
> I believe CRONIC was an application (control program) and ran under a
> truncated version of RT-11.
>
> Allison

If so, it wasn't what we were told in Field Service.
I'm not too sure about CRONIC being an application.
I heard rumors of it being the entire HSC OS and rumors of
the use of MicroPower Pascal.


Bill
Received on Tue Dec 01 1998 - 06:58:25 GMT